Laura Varnam Non-Member Joined 2026

Poet; Medievalist; Academic; Tutor at Univ, Oxford

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Laura Varnam is the Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature at University College, Oxford. She was one of the three winners of the Nine Arches Press Primers competition in 2023 and her poetry sequence 'Grendel's Mother Bites Back' was published in Primers Volume Seven (2024). Her poetry has been published in journals including Bad Lilies, Banshee Lit, Berlin Lit, The London Magazine online, The Rialto, Under the Radar, and Wet Grain. She has published creative-critical essays and poetry in the academic journal postmedieval and on creativecritical.net. She is the co-founder of the Guild of Medievalist Makers. As an academic, she is the author of The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture (Manchester University Press, 2018) and the co-editor of Encountering The Book of Margery Kempe (MUP, 2021). She is also an expert in the life & works of Daphne du Maurier.

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