Clementine Ewokolo Burnley

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley grew up in Victoria, Cameroon, and has lived between Scotland, Italy and Germany for many years. She has an MSc in Computational Linguistics from Manchester University, and is a therapist, conflict mediator and group facilitator. Clementine was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024, and her first book-length collection, Belling the Leopard (Bloodaxe Books, 2026), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet Radical Pairings (Ignitionpress, 2023) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. She has received an Edwin Morgan Second Life Award (2020), the RSL Sky Award (2021) for creative nonfiction, and a Hawthornden Foundation Residency, in Bologna, Italy. Clementine is a non-fiction editor at Bending Genres and a Lector for the Royal Literary Fund Reading Round (2025) in Edinburgh, where she currently lives. clementineburnley.com