Pippa Little was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika (now Tanzania) and grew up in St.Andrews, Fife. She now lives in Northumberland.

Her collections include

edges Ampersand Press 1981

Foray Biscuit Press 2009

The Snow Globe Red Squirrel Press 2011

Overwintering Oxford Poets/Carcanet 2012

Our Lady of the Iguanas Black Light Engine Room Press 2016

Twist Arc Publications 2017

Time Begins to Hurt Arc Publications 2022

Her work is widely published in print and online across the world, including POETRY, Poetry Review, TLS, Magma, The Rialto, Ambit, Agenda, New Statesman, New European.

Anthologies and Collaborations include:

Best British Poetry 2011 Salt

The Captain's Tower 2011 and Twelve Poems for Christmas 2017, both Seren

Land of Three Rivers 2017 and Staying Human 2020, both Bloodaxe

Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology U. of Georgia Press 2018

Dark Mountain: Issue 19 Spring 2021

Dead Good Scots Roncadora Press ed. Hugh Bryden 2021

Colm Cille’s Spiral NCLA 2013 and The Written Image 2013, Scottish Poetry Library/Northern Printmakers

A Hawthornden Fellow and a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University 2015-2019. BA English & European Lit Essex 1983, PhD Queen Mary College University of London Women's Contemporary Poetry 1990. Awards include: Eric Gregory/Norman McCaig Centenary Poetry Prize/James McCash Scottish Poetry Prize. Pippa has worked in publishing as an editorial assistant and staff writer. She has also led literacy projects for community organisations and for the Newcastle Literacy Trust.