Mina Gorji was born in Iran and lives in Cambridge. Her debut, Art of Escape (Carcanet, 2020), was a Telegraph 'Book of the Month.' Her poems were selected for the Forward Book of Poetry and Bloodaxe's Staying Human anthology. She has also written a study of John Clare's poetry, and essays on weeds, rudeness, little things, and listening; a lyric-critical essay, Listening for Stars, was published in Poetry Review (2021). She is Associate Professor at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Pembroke College.