After You Were, I Am

Camille Ralphs, born 1992, is a poet, critic and editor. Her poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in magazines including the New York Review of Books, The Poetry Review, The Spectator and The London Magazine, and she has released three pamphlets: Malkin (The Emma Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award, uplifts & chains (If A Leaf Falls/Glyph Press, 2020) and Daydream College for Bards (Guillemot Press, forthcoming 2023). She writes critically for publications including The Telegraph, The Poetry Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books, produces a regular column for Poetry London and conducts an interview series for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal.

She is Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement. The poem "after Mechthild of Magdeburg" is forthcoming in The New York Review of Books, and other poems are forthcoming in Liberties.