Malene Engelund grew up in Aalborg, a city grown from a former Viking settlement in northern Denmark. She moved to England in 2002 and holds an MA in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway University of London. She currently lives in Greenwich.

She is co-editor of the Days of Roses poetry anthologies and was highly commended in the Faber New Poets 2013/14 competition. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and anthologies, including Poetry Wales, Magma, Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt) and VP's Pocket Horizon. Her debut pamphlet, The Wild Gods, was published by Valley Press in March 2016.