Elisabeth Sennitt-Clough grew up in the Cambridgeshire Fens, England. She is a crime novelist and poet whose work explores landscape, power and psychological inheritance.

Her poetry collections include Sightings, At or Below Sea Level, The Cold Store, My Name is Abilene and Sidewinder (forthcoming November 2026), and a pamphlet Glass. Her debut novel is Shadow Sister.

Glass won the inaugural Paper Swans Pamphlet Competition and the 2017 Saboteur Award for Best Pamphlet; Sightings, her debut full collection, written during her MFA at ManMet, which was awarded the Michael Schmidt Prize for Best Portfolio (a poem from Sightings was also highly commended in the Forward Prize and published in the Forward Book of Poetry 2018. Elisabeth’s second full collection, At or Below Sea Level, is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and a poem from the book won the 2018 Shooter Literary Magazine Poetry Prize. A poem from her third collection The Cold Store was highly commended in the Forward Prize and published in the Forward Book of Poetry 2022. Elisabeth’s fourth full collection My Name is Abilene was shortlisted for the 2023 Forward Prize best collection and is a Poetry Book Society Selection, autumn 2023. Elisabeth’s fifth collection, Sidewinder, is forthcoming in November 2026 from Salt Publishing. Sidewinder received a Society of Authors grant. Three poems from this new collection were recently published in Pennine Platform. Elisabeth’s debut novel, Shadow Sister, is published by Holand Press. In 2025 it was longlisted for the Jenny Brown Associates Prize.