Katy Evans-Bush is a poet, blogger and freelance writer. Her blog, Baroque in Hackney, was shortlisted for the 2012 George Orwell Prize for political writing, and she writes reviews and features for a number of magazines. Her book of essays, Forgive the Language: Essays on Poetry and Poets, will be published in December by Penned in the Margins. She lives in London, where she also teaches poetry.