Daisy Hay recently completed a doctorate in English Literature from New Hall, Cambridge. She has written for academic journals and literary magazines such as the European Romantic Review, the Times Literary Supplement and Slightly Foxed. She lives in London.

When Daisy Hay set out to write her biography of the Romantic poets she wasn’t sure what she was getting into, but in Iowa, New York, and Hampstead she found that her subjects came alive in the most unusual ways.