Jenny Lewis

Jenny Lewis is a poet, playwright, translator and songwriter who teaches poetry at Oxford University. Lewis has had seven plays and poetry cycles performed with music and dance at major UK theatres including the Royal Festival Hall and Pegasus Theatre, Oxford where she was a Core Writing Tutor for 20 years, working mainly with the flagship Pegasus Youth Theatre for which she wrote "After Gilgamesh" (2012) and, with Yasmin Sidhwa and Adnan Al-Sayegh, "Journeys to Freedom: A Retelling of the 1001 Arabian Nights" (2015). Lewis has published four collections including "Taking Mesopotamia" (Oxford Poets/ Carcanet 2014) and "Gilgamesh Retold" (Carcanet Classics, 2018) which was a New Statesman Book of the Year, a LRB Bookshop Book of the Week and Carcanet’s first ever audiobook.