Lizzi Hawkins was born in West Yorkshire in 1995. Her poems have been published in magazines including Ambit, The Rialto, The North, The Compass Magazine, and The Cadaverine, and she is a winner of The Ted Hughes Young Poets Award. In 2013 she was commended as a Foyle Young Poet. She currently shares her time between her hometown of Leeds, and the University of Cambridge, where she is reading for an undergraduate degree in Engineering at Corpus Christi College.