{"id":1145,"date":"2024-11-26T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T09:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1145"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:05:58","slug":"helen-mort","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/helen-mort\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Mort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Mort was born in Sheffield, grew up in Derbyshire, and studied Social and Political Sciences at Christ\u2019s College, Cambridge. She has published two pamphlets with tall-lighthouse press,\u00a0<em>the shape of every box<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>a pint for the ghost<\/em> (a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2010). Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, she received an Eric Gregory Award from The Society of Authors in 2007, and won the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008. Her first full collection, <em>Division Street <\/em>(Chatto &amp; Windus, 2013)<em>,<\/em> was shortlisted for both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Poetry Award. Her second collection <em>No Map Could Show Them\u00a0<\/em>(also Chatto &amp; Windus) was published in 2016. Her most recent, <em>The Illustrated Woman<\/em> (Chatto &amp; Windus), was shortlisted for the 2022 Forward Prize for Best Collection. Her memoir <em>A Line Above The Sky<\/em> (Ebury Press, 2022) shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.won both the Jon Whyte Award and the Grand Prize at Banff. She is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.helenmort.com\/\">www.helenmort.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Helen Mort was born in Sheffield, grew up in Derbyshire, and studied Social and Political Sciences at Christ\u2019s College, Cambridge. She has published two pamphlets with tall-lighthouse press,\u00a0the shape of every box\u00a0and\u00a0a pint for the ghost (a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2010). Five times winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10643,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1145","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}