Rebecca Tamás

Rebecca Tamás is a British poet, writer, critic and editor, the daughter of Hungarian philosopher and public intellectual Gáspár Miklós Tamás. She was born in London in 1988.[1] She studied creative writing at the University of Warwick and at the University of Edinburgh, where she won the Grierson Verse Prize,[2] before completing a PhD at the University of East Anglia.[1] She is a lecturer in creative writing at York St John University where she co-convenes The York Centre for Writing Poetry Series.[3] She is the editor, with Sarah Shin, of the anthology Spells: 21st-century Occult Poetry (Ignota Press, 2018). She has published three pamphlets of poetry: The Ophelia Letters (Salt, 2013), Savage (Clinic, 2017) and Tiger (Bad Betty Press, 2018), and the full-length poetry collection Witch (Penned in the Margins, 2019). In 2020 she published the prose collection Strangers: Essays on the Human and Nonhuman.[4]