Camille Ralphs (b.1992) is a poet, critic and editor. Her first collection of poems, After You Were, I Am, was published by Faber in the UK (2024) and McSweeney’s in the US (2025), where she recently completed a three-week reading tour. The UK edition was a Book of the Year in the Guardian and the Telegraph and on BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Extra, and was positively received by the London Review of Books, The Poetry Review and the Irish Times, among other magazines and periodicals. The US edition was included in Artforum’s Best Books of 2025 and has been longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Poetry Award.
Camille’s poems and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in publications including the New York Review of Books, The Spectator and ArtReview, and she has also released four pamphlets: Malkin (The Emma Press, 2015), which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award, uplifts & chains (If A Leaf Falls/Glyph Press, 2020), Daydream College for Bards (Guillemot Press, 2023) and Common Prayers (limited-edition art book with Shoshana Kessler and Lulu Bennett, 2024).
She writes critically for publications including The Telegraph, Poetry and the Los Angeles Review of Books and conducts an interview series for Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal. For a few years, she produced a regular column for Poetry London, and she has appeared several times on BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 6 Music. Her reading of her poem “Job 42: 10–17” was recently highly commended in the Forward Prize for Best Performed Poem (2025). As of December 2025, she is working on a spoken word album; in early 2026, she will contribute to a radio show about John Dee and read at “Poetry and the British Museum – A New Era“, for which she has been commissioned to write a new poem.
Camille is Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, where she is currently preparing an anthology of essays for TLS Books/HarperCollins, and she teaches at the University of Oxford.