About Me

Richard Meier was born in 1970 and grew up in Surrey. A pianist in his youth, he attended (or, rather, made up the numbers) at the prestigious Chetham's School of Music as a teenager.

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After completing a music degree, Richard lived for a while in Paris before returning to the UK and settling in London. For more than twenty years he worked in the mental health and relationship support charity sectors, in a variety of policy and communications roles.

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In 2010 Richard won the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize and, as a result, had his first collection published by Picador (under the editorship of Don Paterson) in 2012. This collection, Misadventure, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh Prize and was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. A second collection, Search Party, followed in 2019.

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In 2023 Richard retrained as an English language teacher, and has been thoroughly enjoying working with adults to improve their English since that time. He lives with his daughter and son in North London.