Katherine Pierpoint’s collection, Truffle Beds (Faber & Faber, 1995), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 1995 and won various awards. Her work has also appeared in several anthologies. In 1996 she was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year. Since then, she has travelled in India and Egypt thanks to a Somerset Maugham Award, enjoyed various writing residencies and retreats, and attended contemporary poetry conferences in the UK, Italy, Poland, Spain, Mexico, Slovenia and Sweden. In 1999 she was the first poet-in-residence at a police station, as part of Salisbury’s Last Words Festival. In 2003 she visited a contemporary poetry conference in Macedonia. Pierpoint also teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation, tutoring poetry courses for young people and adults, and contributed to the University of Kent’s certificate course in Creative Writing.
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