Grace Nichols

Grace Nichols FRSL
Nichols at the British Library in 2022
Born	1950 (age 73–74) Georgetown, Guyana
Occupation(s)	Poet, teacher, journalist
Notable work	I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983); Sunris (1996)
Spouse	John Agard
Awards	Commonwealth Poetry Prize, 1983; Guyana Poetry Prize, 1996; Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 2021

Grace Nichols FRSL (born 1950) is a Guyanese poet who moved to Britain in 1977, before which she worked as a teacher and journalist in Guyana. Her first collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983), won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. In December 2021, she was announced as winner of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.