HELEN MORT

Helen is a poet, novelist, writer of creative non-fiction, and a member of the Centre for Place Writing. A five-times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, her debut collection, Division Street (Chatto & Windus, 2013), was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T S Eliot Prize. Her second collection, No Map Could Show Them, was published by Chatto & Windus in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Competition. Her first novel, Black Car Burning, was published by Random House in April 2019. In the same year, Vertebrate published Waymaking: ‘an anthology of women’s adventure writing, poetry and art’ – edited by Mort with Claire Carter, Heather Dawe and Camilla Barnard – that won the 2019 Jon Whyte Award at Banff. In June 2018 she was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and she currently lectures in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has submitted a diary style entry for PLACE 2020 chronicling her experience of lockdown in Sheffield.