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Tiffany Atkinson

Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of East Anglia

Professor in Creative Writing (Poetry), University of East Anglia Tiffany Atkinson is a poet and literary critic. Her poems are published widely in journals and anthologies, and her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her second, Catulla et al (Bloodaxe, 2011) was shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year, and her third collection, So Many Moving Parts (Bloodaxe 2014) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Prize. Her most recent, Lumen (Bloodaxe, 2021) was a Poetry Book Society recommendation and winner of the Medicine Unboxed Creative Prize. In 2022 she received the Cholmondeley Award for Poetry. Tiffany is a Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of East Anglia, where she is currently working on a collection of essays about poetry and embarrassment.