Alan Jenkins (poet)

Jenkins was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, brought up on the outskirts of London in Richmond, and educated at the University of Sussex. He has worked for The Times Literary Supplement since 1980, first as poetry and fiction editor, and then as deputy editor. He was also a poetry critic for The Observer, and the Sunday Independent from 1985 to 1990. He edited Essential Reading: Selected Poems of Peter Reading, 1986, and Collected Poems of Ian Hamilton, 2009. He has taught creative writing for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Arvon Foundation, the Poetry Society, London, and at the American University in Paris. He was a judge for the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes. From 2015 to 2018 he was Poet in Residence at St. John's College, University of Cambridge. ==Awards and honours==