Sarala Estruch is a writer, poet, and critic. Her debut poetry pamphlet Say (flipped eye, 2021) was a Poetry School Book of the Year 2021, and her debut full collection of poetry, After All We Have Travelled, will be published with Nine Arches Press in January 2023. Her poetry, creative non-fiction, and criticism have appeared in a variety of journals, including The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Wasafiri, The New Statesman, and The Guardian. She has received commissions from the BBC, the National Trust, the University of Leicester, and the Brontë Society, and she has been a Ledbury Poetry Critic since 2017.
From October 2022, Sarala will be a doctoral candidate at the University of Liverpool researching the poetry and poetics of contemporary mixed-heritage poets and British-Punjabi poets. She is a recipient of the JIC Davies Doctoral Studentship in English.