Katherine Pierpoint | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Northampton, England |
Occupation | Poet |
Alma mater | Exeter University |
Notable works | Truffle Beds (1995) |
Notable awards | Somerset Maugham Award |
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.
Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961. [1] She studied languages at University of Exeter. 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]
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