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Joe Heap (born 1986) is an English author who resides in London. [1] [2] His poetry has been published in several journals and he was a winner of the 2004 Foyle Young Poet Award. [3] He was a guest author at the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival. [4]
Heap was born in London and grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire. [5] He later moved to Scotland where he completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. [6]
Heap’s first book, The Rules of Seeing (HarperCollins, 2018), [7] was shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards for Breakthrough Author and won the RNA's Debut Romantic Novel award in 2018. [8] [9] His second novel was When the Music Stops (HarperCollins, 2020). [10]
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