Katherine Pierpoint
Katherine Pierpoint (born 1961) is an English poet. She is best known for her book Truffle Beds which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Katherine Pierpoint | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1961 (age 61–62) Northampton, England |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | Exeter University |
| Notable work | Truffle Beds |
Life and career
Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961.[1] She studied languages at Exeter University. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in publishing and marketing.[2]
Truffle Beds, Pierpoint's first poetry book, was published in 1995 and won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.[1] Her second book, a collection of translated poems by Coral Bracho, was written alongside Tom Boll and published in 2008.[2]
She won a Hawthornden International Creative Writing Fellowship in 1993[2] and was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1996.[3] She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent and was appointed the poet-in-residence at The King's School, Canterbury in 2006.[2] Pierpoint's work has also appeared in the Spanish anthology La generación del cordero: antología de la poesía actual en las islas británicas.[1]
References
- "Katherine Pierpoint". poetrytranslation.org. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- "Katherine Pierpoint". British Council. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
- "Katherine Pierpoint". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 15 July 2017.