Born in New York, Judith Chernaik now lives in London. She is best known for founding London’s popular Poems on the Underground, which offers poetry of all times and places to a mass audience, a programme which has taken off in cities worldwide.
She is the co-editor of anthologies of Poems on the Underground and her other publications include The Lyrics of Shelley, four novels and many essays, reviews and short stories in the TLS, Guardian, Times, New York Times, Yale Review, most recently essays on Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Chopin in The Musical Times