Colette Bryce was born in Derry in 1970 and has lived in England, Spain and Scotland. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 1995, and won the Aldeburgh Prize and the Strong Award for her first collection The Heel of Bernadette (2000). In 2003, she won the National Poetry Competition for her poem ‘The Full Indian Rope Trick’, which became the title poem of her second collection (2004), shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize that year. Since then, she has published Self-Portrait in the Dark (2008) and The M Pages (2020), and her Selected Poems was published in 2017, all with Picador Poetry. She works as a freelance writer and teacher, and became an editor at Picador Poetry in 2022.
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