Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and lives in Edinburgh. She received an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 2014. She is co-editor of tender, an online arts quarterly, and editor of Currently & Emotion (2016), an anthology of contemporary poetry translations. small white monkeys, a text on self-expression, self-help and shame, was published in 2017 as part of a commissioned residency at Glasgow Women's Library. Her poetry collection, Who Is Mary Sue?, was published by Faber in February 2018, and was named the Poetry Book Society's Spring Choice.
