Olive Franklin

Biography

Born in 2000, Olive Franklin’s debut pamphlet, Dyke Juvenilia, won the Poetry London Pamphlet Competition.

In 2025, she completed an MA in Poetry at Queen’s University Belfast as a Michael Longley scholarship student, where she wrote her critical thesis on revelation and concealment in contemporary women’s poetry. 

Her poems have appeared in Granta, Poetry and The Poetry Review, alongside other publications across the UK and Europe. She lives in London.