Stephanie Sy-Quia (b. 1995.^[1]) is a British-American writer. Born in California and now living in London, Sy-Quia attended the King's School, Canterbury then went on to study English at Oxford.

She has written for publications including The Guardian^[2], The White Review, Boston Review, Granta^[3], Los Angeles Review of Books^[4], The London Magazine^[5], Tribune Mag^[6], and The TLS^[7]. Sy-Quia is a Ledbury Poetry Critic^[8] and has been shortlisted for the Bodley Head Essay Prize.

Her debut poetry collection, Amnion, was published by Granta^[3] in 2021 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry (Best First Collection, 2022)^[9], Somerset Maugham Award, Eric Gregory Award,^[10] and was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Recommendation^[11]. Amnion was also longlisted for the Rathbones Folio^[12] and RSL Ondaatje Prizes^[13]