Helen Farish

Helen Farish (born 1962 Cumbria) is a British poet.

Life
She received her B.A. from University of Durham, M.A. and Ph.D. from Oxford Brookes University.

She lectured in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University.

She has been a Fellow at Hawthornden International Centre for Writers and was the first female Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust (2004-5). She has also been a visiting lecturer at Sewanee University, and a visiting scholar at the University of New Hampshire.

Beginning 2007, she lectures full-time at Lancaster University, in the department of English and Creative Writing. She now lives in Cumbria.

Awards

 * Intimates 2005 Forward best first collection, shortlist for the 2005 TS Eliot prize.

Thesis

 * Sex, God and Grief in the Poetry of Sharon Olds and Louise Glück