Grace Pilkington

Grace Pilkington is a poet who writes about mental illness, womanhood and motherhood. She has performed on the BBC World Service and Times Radio and at festivals including Hay, Port Eliot, Curious Arts Festival and literary nights across the UK. She was long-listed for the Notting Hill Editions essay prize and the 2017 National Poetry Competition. With poetry collective Little Grape Jelly she had a collection published by Eyewear. Her first collection I Have No Idea What I'm Doing: Poems on Pregnancy and Motherhood is out in August. She lives in Hastings with her husband and two children.