Helen Lamb
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Helen Lamb | |
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| Born | 1956 |
| Died | 27 March 2017 (aged 60–61) |
| Nationality | Scottish |
| Genre | Poetry, Short stories, Fiction |
| Notable awards | Scotland on Sunday Women 2000 Prize |
| Partner | Chris Powici |
Helen Lamb (1956–27 March 2017) was an award-winning Scottish poet and short story writer who also worked with the cancer caring Maggie's Centres in the Forth Valley promoting the role of writing in well-being.[1]
Lamb was a writer, educator, mother and grandmother [2] who lived in Dunblane with Chris Powici,[3] who is also a poet, former editor of literary magazine Northwords and a teaching fellow at the University of Stirling.
Career
Her poetry has been published in literary journals and in the joint anthology Strange Fish[4] along with fellow poet Magi Gibson. She also published a short story collection entitled Superior Bedsits and many of her stories were broadcast on radio.[5] Her work has been featured in other general anthologies[1] and she was one of the writers included in Working Words: Scottish creative writing, which was designed to promote creative writing in schools.[6] Her poem "Spell of the Bridge" was one of those reproduced on a postcard for National Poetry Day in 2007.[7] Lamb worked at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, tutoring in creative writing.[1] As well as working with cancer charity Maggie's Centres, Lamb also worked with adult survivors of childhood abuse, editing anthologies of their writings.[1] She died suddenly in 2017 shortly after finishing her first novel Three Kinds of Kissing,[8] described by fellow author Tracey Emerson as "a subtly devastating wonder".[9]
