Tiffany Atkinson

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Tiffany Atkinson
Born1972 (age 51–52)
OccupationAcademic & Poet
Known forRecipient of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award

Tiffany Atkinson (born 1972) is a British academic and award-winning poet. In 1993, she moved to Wales, where after completing her studies in Cardiff, she became a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University.[1][2] In 2014, she was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.[3] She was the recipient of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award.

Biography

Born in

Birmingham University in 1993, she moved to Wales, where she gained a PhD in critical theory from Cardiff University.[4] Atkinson then conducted workshops and academic seminars in eastern Europe for the British Council. In both 1993 and 1994, she won the BBC Radio's Young Poet of the Year contest.[2] She became Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, while undertaking research into theories of the body and the history of anatomy, contemporary literature and poetry.[5] She remained in Aberystwyth until 2014, when she moved to the University of East Anglia as Professor of Creative Writing.[3]

Poetry and writing

Atkinson has published three poetry collections: Kink and Particle (2006), Catulla et al (2011), and So Many Moving Parts (2014). Kink and Particle looks back on a thirty-year-old's memories of childhood and adolescence, and glimpses the future. The book gained positive reviews, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and became a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.[3][6] Catulla et al is a modern rendering of the poetry of Catullus. Writing in The Guardian, Patrict McGuinness welcomes the collection as being "in the finest tradition of creative adaptation: keeping the originals as ballast, but unafraid to sail off on their own tangents."[7] So Many Moving Parts, depicting the awkward relationship of body and spirit and their sometimes surprising practical effects, won the Roland Mathias Poetry Award in 2015.[8]

Furthermore, Atkinson has written prose works and edited a collection of essays entitled The Body (2003).[3][9]

References

  1. ^ "Tiffany Atkinson". Poetry International Rotterdam. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Atkinson, Tiffany". Literature Wales. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Tiffany Atkinson joins UEA as a Professor of Creative Writing". NewWriting. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Interview: Tiffany Atkinson". Aberystwyth University: Devolved Voices. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  5. ^ "Dr Tiffany S. Atkinson". Aberystwyth University. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Kink and Particle". Inpress. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  7. ^ McGuinness, Patrick (18 November 2011). "Catulla et al by Tiffany Atkinson – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  8. ^ "Wales Book of the Year – success for Tiffany Atkinson and Jonathan Edwards". The Poetry Society. Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  9. ISBN 978-0-333-76534-0
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