Selima Hill

Selima Hill
BornSeilima Wood
(1945-10-13) 13 October 1945 (age 79)
Hampstead, England
OccupationAcademic, poet
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
EducationCambridge University
Notable worksViolet (1997)
Bunny (2001)
Notable awardsCholmondeley Award (1986)
Whitbread Book Award (2001)
King's Gold Medal for Poetry

Selima Hill (born 13 October 1945) is a British poet. She has published twenty poetry collections since 1984. Her 1997 collection, Violet, was shortlisted for the most important British poetry awards: the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year), the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. She was selected as recipient of the 2022 King's Gold Medal for Poetry.