About me
Christy Ku is a London based poet, writer, actor and workshop facilitator.
She is a James Berry Poetry Prize 2024 commended poet. She has worked with organisations including the BBC, Sky Arts, Apples & Snakes, Science Museum and the Barbican on projects such as poetry films, spoken word tracks and theatre shows. Christy is an alumn of the Barbican Young Poets, New Earth Actors Academy, National Youth Theatre, Southbank New Poets Collective and Royal Court Theatre Playwriting Group. She is the founder of BESEA Poets, a platform for British based East and South-East Asian poets.
Christy has been published with Macmillan Children's Books, Pan Macmillan, Own It!, Magma Poetry, the Barbican, Potluck Zine, Spoonfed, The Dark Horse Magazine and more. She was once rejected from having a poem baked onto 200 loaves of bread.
She is a James Berry Poetry Prize 2024 commended poet. She has worked with organisations including the BBC, Sky Arts, Apples & Snakes, Science Museum and the Barbican on projects such as poetry films, spoken word tracks and theatre shows. Christy is an alumn of the Barbican Young Poets, New Earth Actors Academy, National Youth Theatre, Southbank New Poets Collective and Royal Court Theatre Playwriting Group. She is the founder of BESEA Poets, a platform for British based East and South-East Asian poets.
Christy has been published with Macmillan Children's Books, Pan Macmillan, Own It!, Magma Poetry, the Barbican, Potluck Zine, Spoonfed, The Dark Horse Magazine and more. She was once rejected from having a poem baked onto 200 loaves of bread.
My Plays
I will add details of my plays soon.
