Jen Hadfield was born in Cheshire and lives in Shetland. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003 and was given a Scottish Arts Council Writer’s Bursary in 2002 to help her complete her first collection, Almanacs, which was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2005. She used her Eric Gregory Award to fund a year’s residence in Canada, where she gave readings from Halifax to Vancouver. Nigh-No-Place (Bloodaxe Books) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in Spring 2008, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Since then, she has published further collections with Picador Poetry including Byssus (2014) and The Stone Age (2021), and was awarded £140,000 as one of eight winners of the US Windham-Campbell Prize.
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