Collection: S. J. Litherland

S.J. Litherland's work encompasses love, politics, loss, and philosophy. She has four published collections of poetry, Flowers of Fever (Iron Press 1992), The Apple Exchange (Flambard 1999), The Work of the Wind (Flambard 2006) and The Homage (Iron Press 2006). She has received two Northern Writers' Awards from New Writing North (in 1994 and 2000). Originally from Warwickshire, she has lived in Durham City since 1965, bringing up a son and daughter and working as a journalist (as Jackie Levitas). Now a part-time tutor in creative writing, she is also a founding member of Vane Women writers collective and press.