The Night Workers

Renowned poet, novelist, short story, and children's writer. Her poetry books have been given the Poetry Book Society Choice and Recommendations, Cardiff International Poetry Prize and Signal Poetry Award, and Bestiary was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her latest Bloodaxe poetry titles are Out of the Blue: Poems 1975-2001 (2001), Glad of These Times (2007), and The Malarkey (2012), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, the title-poem of which won the 2010 National Poetry Competition. She has published eleven novels and three books of short stories with Penguin, including A Spell of Winter, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction. She lives in Bristol.