A K Blakemore is a poet and novelist based in North Essex.
Her novels include The Manningtree Witches (Granta, 2021)– winner of the Desmond Elliot Prize for Best Debut Novel, and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and Society of Authors Ondaatje Prize – and The Glutton (Granta, 2023), shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Her full-length poetry collections are Fondue (Offord Road Books, 2018) and Humbert Summer (Eyewear, 2015).
Her work has been widely published and anthologised, appearing in Poetry Review, The London Review of Books, The Guardian and The White Review, among others.
