Mimi Khalvati was born in Tehran, Iran, and grew up on the Isle of Wight, England. She trained at Drama Centre London and has worked as an actor and director in the UK and Iran. Khalvati is the author of eight poetry collections, including The Weather Wheel, The Meanest Flower, and, most recently, Child: New and Selected Poems 1991-2011. She co-founded The Poetry School - the UK’s largest provider of poetry education and opportunities to poets and poetry audiences - and was the Coordinator from 1997–2004. She is a core tutor for the School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her work has been translated into nine languages, and in 2006 she received a Cholmondeley Award. Of her early influences, she cites Wordsworth and her childhood on the Isle of Wight as ‘very much the wellspring of my poetry’.

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