Helen Farish
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Helen Farish (born 1962) is a British poet.
She received her B.A. from University of Durham, M.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University.
She lectured in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.[1]
She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004–5). She has also been a visiting lecturer at Sewanee University, and a visiting scholar at the University of New Hampshire.
Beginning 2007, she lectures full-time at Lancaster University, in the department of English and Creative Writing.[2]
She now lives in Cumbria.
Awards
- Intimates 2005 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, shortlist for the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize.
- The Penny Dropping 2024, shortlist for the 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize.
