Notes from two workshops by Anthony McNeill
Vahni Capildeo
Vahni Capildeo is Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her publications include Measures of Expatriation which won the 2016 Forward Poetry Prizes Best Collection award; Simple Complex Shapes, a sequence completed during the Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellowship, University of Cambridge; and Utter inspired by her former job as a lexicographer at the Oxford English Dictionary. Her latest collection is Venus as a Bear (Carcanet, 2018). She enjoys cross-genre writing and interdisciplinary collaboration, and has created performances based on Shakespeare, Euripides, and Guyanese poet Martin Carter. She writes a regular column for PN Review.