Emma Must

Emma Must lives in Belfast. Her debut poetry collection, The Ballad of Yellow Wednesday (Valley Press, December 2022), was longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2023 and Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. Formerly a full-time environmental campaigner, in 2021 she completed a PhD focusing on ecopoetry. Emma’s poem, Toll, won the Environmental Defenders Prize in the 2019 Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry; her debut poetry pamphlet, Notes on the Use of the Austrian Scythe (2015), won the Templar Portfolio Award.

In 1995 she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize for Europe, for her efforts towards land conservation.