Elena Croitoru is a British-Romanian writer and she has an MSt in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Her first poetry chapbook won the Live Canon Pamphlet prize and was published in '21. Her first novel was shortlisted for the Wilbur Smith Prize - Best Unpublished Novel. She won the Charles Causley Poetry Prize, the South Bank Poetry Prize and placed in/was a finalist for prizes such as the Michael Marks Greek Bicentennial Pamphlet Prize, Bridport Prize & other awards.