Aviva Dautch (born 5 May 1978) is a British poet, academic, curator and magazine publisher, who is of Eastern European Jewish ancestry.
[5] Her sequence of poems about clearing her hoarding mother's home won the 2017 Primers Prize[6] and were featured on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour.
[7] During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, Radio 4 made an extended half-hour programme We Sigh for Houses, in which she explored what it means to be the child of a hoarder and how her poetry seeks to make order and beauty from the chaos in which she grew up.
The two have worked together on projects including the centenary celebrations for Rosalind Franklin,[12] an event marking the discovery of a new short story by Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer,[13] and a number of BBC Radio 4 poetry programsme.
[22] Her tweet was one of the first uses of this hashtag as a rallying cry and commentary on parallels between American President Donald Trump's immigration policies and the Nazi era.