Olivia Cole is an award-winning poet and journalist, writing for the London Evening Standard, the Spectator and the Daily Beast. She specialises in the arts, literature and London’s party scene. Olivia was born in 1981 in Kent, and read English at Christ Church, Oxford. Restricted View is her first poetry collection. In 2003 she won an Eric Gregory award, the Society of Authors’ awards for poets under the age of 30.