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Biographie de Sophie McKeand

Sophie McKeand is an award-winning poet, writer, and sound artist, creating at the intersection of humanity, technology, & nature. She is the former Young People's Laureate Wales and TEDx speaker. She won the OUTspoken Award for Innovation in Poetry, was longlisted for the Poetry Society's National Poetry Competition, and was the recipient of a Creative Wales Award. She is the author of three poetry pamphlets: Prophecy: conversations with my Self (2010), Hanes (2016), and The Slow-Time Traveller (2018), and a full-length hard-back poetry collection, Rebel Sun (2017); she collaborated on an album of poetry & noise, inc.
fronting live performances, DRKMTR (2012); devised two shows, Metaforestry (2013) and CRØWOMAN (2018); and has just completed the Copyleft feminist cli-fi series The MthR Trilogy: The Madness of Sara Mansfield (1/5/2021), Prophets of The Red Night (1/5/2022), and Rematriation (due 1/5/2023). Her work has been published widely including Poetry Wales, Planet magazine, Dark Mountain and more. She has performed extensively including at Hay Festival, Uncivilisation, Caught by the River, the Kolkata Literature Festival, and more.
Her public commission on a Woodland Trust legacy pole resides in Bute Park, Cardiff, her commission to commemorate the Aberfan disaster was performed on the Wales Millennium Centre's stage by Michael Sheen, and her commission to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the NHS is installed in the Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran. From spring 2023, to promote The MthR Trilogy, Sophie is taking a fluid show of spoken word extracts from the novels performed with looped field recordings and improvised soundscapes to interesting places in Europe, starting with Focus Wales Festival, then a special recording for Unpsychology Magazine, as well as multiple performances at Stockholm and Gothenburg fringe festivals.