Daisy Hay was born in Oxford in 1981. She has a PhD in English Literature from New Hall, Cambridge, where she also gained a First Class Honours Degree, and an MA in Romantic and Sentimental Literature from the University of York.  Between 2006 and 2009 she was a Bye-Fellow at New Hall, and from 2009 to 2010 she was the Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford. She is currently a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford.  She has written for various academic journals and literary magazines, including the Observer, the Times Literary Supplement and Slightly Foxed, and is a contributor to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Shelley Studies.  Young Romantics is her first book. It was awarded the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize by the British Academy, shortlisted for the Biographers' Club Best First Biography Prize, and was highly commended by the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.  She is currently working on a second biography, entitled A Strange Romance, which explores the lives of Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli.