Collection: Tiffany Atkinson

Tiffany Atkinson has lived in Wales for many years, where she is a lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. She won the Ottakar’s and Faber National Poetry Competition in 2000 and the Cardiff Academi International Poetry Competition in 2001. Her first collection, Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the Glen Dimplex New Writers Award. She will be judging the 2011 Cardiff International Poetry Competition, alongside fellow poets Don Paterson and Philip Gross.