Pascale Petit was born in 1953 in Paris, France. She is based in Cornwall. She is the author of seven poetry collections, which includes Heart of a Deer, The Zoo Father, The Huntress, The Treekeeper's Tale, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo, and Fauverie. Her most recent collection is Mama Amazonica (2017), for which she won the Royal Society of Literature's 2018 Ondaatje Prize.
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