Pascale Petit (poet)

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Pascale Petit
Pascale Petit
Born	(1953-12-20) 20 December 1953 (age 70) Paris, France
Occupation	Poet
Language	English
Nationality	French and British
Alma mater	Royal College of Art
Period	1994–present
Notable works	Mama Amazonica (2017)
Notable awards	RSL Ondaatje Prize, 2018 Laurel Prize for Poetry, 2020

Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953),^[1] is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India.

Petit has published eight poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her seventh collection Mama Amazonica won the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2018 and the inaugural Laurel Prize for Poetry in 2020.^[2] In 2018, Petit was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.^[3]