Naomi Foyle
Native name	Naomi Foyle
Born	(1967-02-22) February 22, 1967 (age 56) London, United Kingdom
Occupation	poet, novelist, essayist, editor, translator, activist
Nationality	British
Genre	British literature
Website
www.naomifoyle.com

Naomi Foyle (born 22 February 1967) is a British-Canadian poet, novelist, essayist, editor, translator and activist. For her poetry and essays about Ukraine, she was awarded the 2014 Hryhorii Skovoroda Prize.^[1]

Life and career

Foyle was born in London, UK. She was brought up in London, Hong Kong, Liverpool and Saskatchewan, and graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Philosophy in 1990.^{[citation needed]}

Her book, Seoul Survivors, was praised by the Guardian.^[2] Library Journal recommended the series Astra "for Hunger Games fans of all ages".^[3]

In 2021, Foyle disclosed on her blog that she had been diagnosed with autism the previous year at the age of 53.^[4]

Selected publications

Prose

• Seoul Survivors Jo Fletcher Books, 2013, ISBN 978-1-78087-600-9
• Astra: Book One of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2014. ISBN 978-1-78087-636-8
• Rook Song: Book Two of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78206-921-8
• The Blood of the Hoopoe: Book Three of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2016. ISBN 978-1-78206-924-9
• Stained Light: Book Four of the Gaia Chronicles Jo Fletcher Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78206-927-0

Poetry collections

• The Night Pavilion Waterloo Press, 2008. ISBN 978-1-906742-05-8
• The World Cup Waterloo Press, 2010. ISBN 978-1-906742-21-8
• Adamantine Red Hen/Pighog Press, 2019. ISBN 978-1-906309-41-1

Poetry pamphlets

• Curdled Cream: A Collection of Snarls. Kinkos, Toronto. 1990.
• Febrifuge treeplantsink press, 1996
• Citas Impossibles/Impossible Engagements, 1997
• Forgive the Rain: more exceptionally useless poems Back Pack Press, 1997 [2nd Ed. 1999]
• Songs from the Blood Shed Window Grate Press, 1996 [2nd ed 2000]
• Aphrodite's Answering Machine: Erotic Vignettes Urban Pillow, 2002
• Red Hot & Bothered Lansdowne Press, 2003
• Canada Echo Room Press, 2004
• Grace of the Gamblers: A Chantilly Chantey Waterloo Press, 2010 ISBN 978-1-906742-17-1
• No Enemy but Time Waterloo Press, 2017

Edited anthologies & collections (with introductions)

• Mairtin Crawford: Selected Poems. Lagan Press, 2005
• A Blade of Grass: New Palestinian Poetry (Smokestack Books, 2017) ISBN 978-0-9957675-3-9

Co-translations

• Enemies Outside / Enemigos Afuera by Mori Ponsowy. Translated by Mori Ponsowy and Naomi Foyle. ISBN 978-1-906742-25-6
• Wounds of the Cloud by Yasser Khanger. Al Ma'mal Foundation, 2016. Translated by Naomi Foyle, Marilyn Hacker and Do'a Ali. ISBN 978-90-825649-1-4