Laura Lee Dockrill (born 28 May 1986) is an English author and performance poet.

Personal life

Dockrill is from

Brixton Brixton is an area of South London, part of the London Borough of Lambeth, England. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. Brixton experienced a rapid rise in population during the 19th century ...

, South London. She attended the

BRIT School BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology is a British performing and creative arts school located in Selhurst, Croydon, England, with a mandate to provide education and vocational training for the performing arts, music, music technology, ...

and Richard Atkins Primary School. She went on to graduate from

Middlesex University Middlesex University London (legally Middlesex University and abbreviated to MDX) is a public research university based in Hendon, northwest London, England. The university also has campuses in Dubai and Mauritius. The name of the university is ...

. Dockrill is married to musician Hugo White (from The Maccabees); they have a son, after whose birth Dockrill suffered severe postpartum psychosis.

Books

*''Mistakes in the Background'' (HarperCollins, 2008) *''Ugly Shy Girl'' (HarperCollins, 2009) *''Echoes'' (HarperCollins, 2010) *''What Have I Done? Motherhood, Mental illness & Me'' (Square Peg, 2020) *''I Love You, I Love You, I love You'' (HQ, 2024)

Children's books

*''Darcy Burdock'' (2013) *''Lorali'' (Hot Key Books, 2015) *''Aurabel'' (Hot Key Books, 2017) *''My Mum's Growing Down'' (Faber & Faber, 2017) *''Big Bones'' (Hot Key Books, 2018) *''Angry Cookie'' (Walker Books, 2018) *''Robin Hood'' (Samuel French, 2018) *''My ideal boyfriend is a croissant'' (2019) *''Sequin and Stitch'' (Barrington Stoke, 2020) *''Butterfly Brain'' (Templar Publishing, 2020) *''The Lipstick'' (Walker Books, 2021)

References

External links

Laura Dockrill – interview (The Guardian)Laura Dockrill (HarperCollins)Laura Dockrill (BBC Radio)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dockrill, Laura Living people Date of birth missing (living people) English women poets 1986 births Alumni of Middlesex University English children's writers People educated at the BRIT School People from Brixton Writers from the London Borough of Lambeth