Helen Mort

Biography

Helen Mort has published three poetry collections, Division Street, No Map Could Show Them, and The Illustrated Woman (shortlisted for the Forward Prize). She won the Fenton Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection. Her debut novel Black Car Burning was published in 2019. She teaches creative writing at Manchester Metropolitan University and she is also the author of Lake District Trail Running. Her first non-fiction book A Line Above the Sky was published in 2022. She has been shortlisted for the Forward Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Costa Prize, and is an RSL Fellow.