Will Harris

Will Harris is a writer of Chinese Indonesian and British heritage, born and based in London. His debut poetry book, RENDANG (2020), is published by Granta in the UK. It was a Poetry Book Society choice, shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and won the Forward Prize for best first collection.

He co-edited the spring 2020 issue of The Poetry Review with Mary Jean Chan. Harris was a fellow of The Complete Works III. Published in the Bloodaxe anthology Ten: Poets of the New Generation, he was featured in ES Magazine as part of the ‘new guard’ of London poets.

His debut pamphlet of poems, All this is implied, published by HappenStance, was joint winner of the 2017 London Review Bookshop pamphlet of the year and shortlisted for the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award by the National Library of Scotland. ‘Mixed-Race Superman’, an essay on race and masculinity, was published by Peninsula Press in May 2018 and in an expanded US edition by Melville House in 2019.