Jasmin Allenspach

is an award-winning writer and physicist.

Hailing from Switzerland, she now calls London home and writes in the no man's land between her seven languages.

About
Jasmin

Jasmin Allenspach is an award-winning Swiss writer, educator, and theoretical physicist living in London. Speaking seven languages, she writes in English despite her mother tongue being Swiss German.Most recently, Jasmin’s writing has been nominated for the Forward Prizes 2026, the most influential awards for new poetry in the UK, and recognised by the National Poetry Competition, Magma Poetry Competition, and the Platinum Poetry Prize at the Creative Future Writers’ Award. Performances include BBC Radio and major arts venues such as Southbank Centre and Barbican Centre, where she was a Barbican Young Poet.Jasmin is a Young Trustee of the London Library, one of the UK's leading literary institutions, which she first joined as a London Library Emerging Writer. With over a decade’s experience in education and community building, she is the founder of Exo Vox, the UK’s first collective for exophonic writers and researchers.Jasmin's scientific research seeks to unite the largest and smallest scales in our universe, not unlike her writing. She graduated top of her year with an MSc Physics from ETH Zurich, part of which she spent at Oxford. She has taught at university and secondary schools.When not dissecting words or equations, Jasmin dances classical ballet.

Writing
Awards

Prizes

Scholarships & Residencies

Writing

Selected Publications & Commissions

Selected Performances

Jasmin's Poetry in a Nutshell
(or, as a Cocktail Recipe)

Enjoy your poem – Jasmin calls it the corpse reviver.

Projects

Exo Vox   /   exovox.org

is the UK's first collective for writers and researchers of exophony, the art of writing in a language other than your mother tongue.

Peerclass   /   peerclass.co.uk

is an international writing talk series – a grassroots twist on the traditional writing masterclass.

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