Hollie McNish

Hollie McNish (born 1983) is a British poet and author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She has published four collections of poetry: Papers (2012), Cherry Pie (2015), Why I Ride (2015), Plum (2017) and one poetic memoir on politics and parenthood, Nobody Told Me (2016), for which she won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. The latter has been translated into German, French and Spanish. McNish's sixth publication – a second cross-genre collection of poetry, memoir and short stories – Slug, and other things I've been told to hate, was published in May 2021 with Hachette with a further collection Lobster, was published in 2024 In 2016, she co-wrote with fellow poet Sabrina Mahfouz a play titled Offside, relating the history of British women in football. This was published as a book in 2017.