Betsy Porritt

Dr. Betsy Porritt (she/her) is a poet and literary scholar from Devon. She currently teaches interdisciplinary theory and practice at the University of Birmingham. Her poems, collages, and sound works are online and in print journals including: Still Point, Ludd Gang, Stride Mag, Free Verse, Now I Know, Daylight, The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein, DATABLEED X, SPAM001, Amberflora 10, Me & My Friends, and Assembly. She has a pamphlet of poetry with Guillemot Press and a cowritten chapter coming out in a Routledge collection in which she discusses, with Dr. Declan Wiffen, the possibilities of teaching the anecdote as a space of queer, feminist refusal.

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