Born in California and now living in London, Sy-Quia attended the King's School, Canterbury then went on to study English at Oxford.
She has written for publications including The Guardian,[2] The White Review, Boston Review, Granta,[3] Los Angeles Review of Books,[4] The London Magazine,[5] Tribune Mag,[6] and The TLS.
[7] Sy-Quia is a Ledbury Poetry Critic[8] and has been shortlisted for the Bodley Head Essay Prize.
Her debut poetry collection, Amnion, was published by Granta[3] in 2021 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry (Best First Collection, 2022),[9] Somerset Maugham Award, Eric Gregory Award,[10] and was the Poetry Book Society's Winter Recommendation.
[11] Amnion was also longlisted for the Rathbones Folio[12] and RSL Ondaatje Prizes[13]