Helen Ivory is a poet and visual artist. She won an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1999 and is a current judge for the Awards. She has published four collections with Bloodaxe Books, The Double Life of Clocks (2002), The Dog in the Sky (2006), The Breakfast Machine (2010) and Waiting for Bluebeard (2013), with The Anatomical Venus due out in 2019. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is a lecturer for the UEA/National Centre for Writing online creative writing programme. Fool’s World, a collaborative Tarot with artist Tom de Freston (Gatehouse Press) won the 2016 Saboteur Best Collaborative Work award. A book of collage/ mixed media poems, Hear What the Moon Told Me, was published KFS in 2017. She was awarded Arts Council funding and an Author’s Award from The Society of Authors to work on The Anatomical Venus. She lives in Norwich.
Her website is www.helenivory.co.uk.
Author photo: Dave Gutteridge
