Dr Hannah Lowe
Reader in Creative Writing

Summary

Dr Hannah Lowe is a Lecturer in Creative Writing. She is a poet and memoirist, whose work lies between creative writing, memory studies and postcolonial studies. Her completed her AHRC funded PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle, using historical research to narrate the 1947 journey of the SS Ormonde, the immigrant ship predating Windrush. Broadly her writing explores British multicultural society and its links to the Caribbean and China. Her current practice-based research is on Chinese arrival and settlement to the UK. Dr Lowe is the author of several collections of poetry and a family memoir. She is former poet-in-residence at Keats House, London.

Qualifications

PhD in Creative Writing, Newcastle Univeristy

MA in Refugee Studies, University of East London

BA (hons) American Literature, University of Sussex

PGCSE Post-Compulsory Education