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Helen Mort (born 28 September 1985, Sheffield) is a British poet and novelist. She is a five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets award, received an
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from The Society of Authors in 2007, and won the
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Young Writer Prize in 2008. In 2010, she became the youngest ever poet-in-residence at the
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, Grasmere. In the same year she was shortlisted for the Picador Prize and won the Norwich Café Writers' Poetry Competition with a poem called "Deer". She was the Derbyshire Poet Laureate from 2013 to 2015. In 2014, she won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize for "Division Street". She is an alumna of
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, from which she graduated with a degree in Social and Political Sciences in 2007. In 2014, she completed her Doctorate at
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with a Ph.D thesis in English/Neuroscience and her BlogSpot "Poetry on the Brain" was one of the Picador "Best Poetry Blogs" choices. Her collection ''Division Street'' is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In a national survey, it was chosen by sixth-form groups and reading groups as their first choice collection. She has published two pamphlets with
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press. In 2014 she was named as a Next Generation poet by the Poetry Book Society. Mort is currently the Douglas Caster Creative Writing Fellow in the School of English at the University of Leeds. She edited the ''Verse Matters'' anthology with Rachel Bower who is also a Fellow at the University of Leeds. She has appeared on radio programmes such as ''The Verb'', ''
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'', and '' Woman's Hour''. Individual poems have been published in the '' New Statesman'', "Ex-Industrial (a trailer)", and the ''
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'', "Admit you feel like all the ice skates in Brazil", as well as the magazines ''
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'', '' Granta'', ''
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'', ''The Manhattan Review'', and ''The North''. In June 2018 Mort was elected Fellow of the
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in its "40 Under 40" initiative.


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