Zakia Carpenter-Hall is an American writer, tutor, editor and critic living in the UK. She was a winner of Poetry London’s inaugural mentoring scheme, a London Library Emerging Writer, and a Jerwood Bursary Recipient. She has been a Poet in Residence with The Scottish Poetry Library, in partnership with Africa in Motion and the Obsidian Foundation, which resulted in her ecopoetry film ‘Human Ecologies’ (2021). Her poetry and reviews have been published in Poetry Wales, The Poetry Review, Wild Court, Magma and elsewhere. She was interviewed on The Poetry Society Podcast and her Behind the Poem Feature ‘Zakia Carpenter-Hall: The Mythic Element’ discussing ‘The Gold Price’ can be found via The Poetry Review’s webpage. She has taught creative writing at Kingston University in London, the Poetry School and Royal Holloway, University of London. Into the Same Sound Twice (Seren, 2023) is her debut poetry pamphlet. She was a part of the editorial team of Magma 82, Obsidian and a contributing editor for Poetry Wales 60.2 issue.