Clementine Ewokolo Burnley Author

Clementine Ewokolo Burnley grew up in Victoria, Cameroon, and has lived between Scotland, Italy and Germany for forty years. She has an M.Sc. in Computational Linguistics from Manchester University and is a part-time, practice-based student at the Research Society for Process Oriented Psychotherapy, studying post-traumatic growth. She was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024, and her first book-length collection, Belling the Leopard (Bloodaxe Books, 2026) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her pamphlet Radical Pairings (Ignitionpress, 2023) was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Poetry Award. She has received an Edwin Morgan Second Life Award (2020) and the RSL Sky Award (2021) for creative nonfiction. She lives in Edinburgh.