Erica
Hesketh

Erica Hesketh is a poet, editor and events producer, originally from Japan and Denmark, now based in London. Widely published in magazines, her poetry has been commissioned by the Royal Festival Hall, Spread the Word and the London Philharmonic Orchestra. She was longlisted in the 2023 National Poetry Competition, and highly commended in the 2025 Forward Prizes. She has twenty years’ experience editing fiction, non-fiction and poetry, working for publishers as well as directly with authors. She has programmed events for Southbank Centre, Port Eliot Festival and others. From 2016 to 2024 she was Director of the Poetry Translation Centre. She is the editor of Living in Language: International reflections for the practising poet, and a member of the Southbank Centre New Poets Collective 2023–24. Her debut collection In the Lily Room is out with Nine Arches Press, and her pamphlet To an Unknown Receiver: Sonnets & Cascades will be published by Guillemot Press in June 2026.