Miriam Gamble (born 1980) is a poet who won the

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in 2007 and the

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in 2011. She lives in Scotland and works as a lecturer at the

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Life and career

Miriam Gamble was born in

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, Belgium, in 1980 and grew up in

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in Northern Ireland. She studied English Language and Literature at the

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and Modern Literary Studies at

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where she also received her phD in Form, Genre and Lyric Subjectivity in Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. She moved to Scotland in 2010 and began teaching creative writing at the University of Edinburgh in 2012. Her first collection of poems called, ''The Squirrels Are Dead'' was published in 2010 by

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. Gamble's second collection, ''Pirate Music'', was also published by Bloodaxe Books. Her third, ''What Planet'', was published by Bloodaxe in May 2019 and received the 2020 Pigott Poetry Prize.

Awards and nominations

*2007 -

*2010 - Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award *2011 -

for ''The Squirrels Are Dead'' *2012 -

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*2020 - Pigott Poetry Prize

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gamble, Miriam 1980 births Living people Academics of the University of Edinburgh Writers from Belfast Alumni of the University of Oxford Alumni of Queen's University Belfast