Millie Woodrow

Millie Woodrow is a writer of prose and poetry from Wiltshire, England. She is a recent graduate of the University of Oxford ‘s Creative Writing MSt where she worked under the tutelage of Camille Ralphs and Jane Draycott. She is working on her first collection, Venus in the Forest, an exploration of grief and sensuality set in the landscapes of her home. During the day she makes coffee in a café in her hometown. On her days off she walks, writes, and (of late) watches Jessie Buckley films. Her work has been previously published in Acumen, Motherlore, and The Passionfruit Review. 

Her poetry focuses on the themes of grief, landscape, emotion and archaeology. Her work is influenced by writers such as Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney, particularly by how those writers blend landscape, memory and emotion within their work. Her own work seeks to explore the boundary between past and present, digging for the true, untraceable, emotional artefacts of our lives. 

Her other influences include artists Augustus and Gwen John, Dora Carrington, novelists Edna O’ Brien, Sara Baume, Barney Norris and Mary Webb, and poets such as Alice Oswald and Fiona Benson. 

She is also working on a novel, Trespass: a love story between two housebreakers on Salisbury Plain. 

Millie runs poetry events in the South West with her events company Close Poetry, bringing together local poets with a community of open mic readers. They will shortly be introducing a programme of workshops. 

She can be found on Instagram: @milliewoodrowwriter and @closepoetryuk