Alice Priscilla Lyle Oswald is a British poet from Reading, Berkshire. Her poetry has received major recognition, winning the T. S. Eliot Prize in 2002 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017. Oswald has held several prestigious positions in the literary world. In September 2017, she was named BBC Radio 4's second Poet-in-Residence, following Daljit Nagra in the role. From October 2019 until September 2023, she served as the Oxford Professor of Poetry, one of the most distinguished academic positions in English literature.