Helen Mort

In the same year she was shortlisted for the Picador Prize and won the Norwich Café Writers' Poetry Competition with a poem called "Deer".

Her collection Division Street[2] is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T.S.

[citation needed] Mort is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.She edited the Verse Matters anthology with Rachel Bower who is a Fellow at the University of Leeds.

Individual poems have been published in the New Statesman, "Ex-Industrial (a trailer)", and the Sunday Times, "Admit you feel like all the ice skates in Brazil", as well as the magazines Poetry Review, Granta, The Rialto, Poetry London, The Manhattan Review, and The North.

[citation needed] In June 2018, Mort was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.