Gill McEvoy is a Hawthornden Fellow. Her first pamphlet, Uncertain Days, (Happenstance Press 2006) earned a special mention in the PBS bulletin. Her third pamphlet, The First Telling, (Happenstance Press 2014) won the 2015 Michael marks Award. She has two full collections from Cinnamon Press: The Plucking Shed, 2010 and Rise, 2013. Also two collections from Hedgehog Press: Are You Listening? 2020, and Selected Poems, 2024. She lives in Devon, where she runs a monthly poetry reading group, and is a regular member of Company of Poets in Totnes. Gill cares deeply about wildlife and works with a group called Bee-wild, planting flowers and shrubs around her village for the benefit of bees and other pollinators, and thereby giving pleasure also to passers-by!
