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Laura Dockrill

English author and performance poet From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Laura Dockrill
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Laura Lee Dockrill (born 28 May 1986) is an English author[1] and performance poet.[2]

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Image of Laura Dockrill holding one of her authored book

Personal life

Dockrill is from Brixton, South London. She attended the BRIT School and Richard Atkins Primary School.[3] She went on to graduate from Middlesex University.[4][5]

Dockrill is married to musician Hugo White (from The Maccabees); they have a son, after whose birth Dockrill suffered severe postpartum psychosis.[6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

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

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