Idle Grounds: Krystelle Bamford with Niamh Ní Mhaoileoin

Krystelle Bamford’s work has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, bath magg, PANK, Under the Radar and a number of anthologies including the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019–2021 (Eyewear). She is a 2019 Primers (Nine Arches Press) poet and was awarded a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. Born in France and raised in the US, she now lives in Edinburgh with her partner and two kids. Idle Grounds, her first novel, is out with Hutchinson Heinemann (UK) and Scribner (US) in Spring 2025.

This event will be chaired by Niamh Ni Mhaoileoin, author of ‘Ordinary Saints’.