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Helen Mort

Helen Mort has published three poetry collections (Division Street, 2013, No Map Could Show Them, 2016, The Illustrated Woman, 2023), a novel (Black Car Burning, 2019) and a memoir A Line Above The Sky, 2023). She has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize and in 2024 won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. She is a Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and a vice-chair of the Royal Society of Literature. Her fourth poetry collection is STEPMOTHER, 2026.