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Helen Mort was born in Sheffield in 1985 and grew up in nearby Chesterfield. She is a multi-award-winning poet and author, and her published work includes poetry, fiction and non-fiction, with a particular interest in women and mountaineering. She is a five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, and her first poetry collection, Division Street, was shortlisted for the Costa Prize and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her first novel, Black Car Burning, was longlisted for the Portico Prize and the Dylan Thomas Prize. She has been the Wordsworth Trust Poet in Residence and the Derbyshire Poet Laureate, and was named as one of the Royal Society of Literature's 40 under 40 Fellows in 2018. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent and appeared on television and radio. In 2017, she was a judge for the Man Booker International Prize and chair of judges for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature. She has taught creative writing for over ten years and is a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. A Line Above the Sky, her first work of narrative memoir, was featured in the Guardian and Evening Standard's 'books to watch' lists and won the Grand Prize at the 2023 Banff Mountain Book Competition. She lives in Nether Edge, Sheffield, with her family and dog, Denver.
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