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Carolyn
Jess-Cooke was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Following a BA, MA, and
PhD at Queen's University, she took up a lectureship in Film Studies at
the University of Sunderland.
She has published four non-fiction books in the field of Film Studies and
Shakespeare, and her poetry collection, INROADS, is being published by Seren
in 2010. She has received a number of significant awards for writing, including
a Northern Promise Award, the Tyrone Guthrie Prize for Poetry,
a major Arts Council Award, an Eric Gregory Award from
the Society of Authors, and a prize in the Cardiff International Poetry
Competition. She is Poetry Advisor for Mslexia and a Senior Lecturer
in Creative Writing at Northumbria University.
She now lives in the north east of England with her family.
Visit Carolyn's website: www.carolynjesscooke.co.uk
