Books by Helen Kitson

Helen Kitson was born in Leicester, and grew up in Worcester, where she spent seven years working as a typist for the County Council. She began writing poetry seriously in 1990, having fallen in love with Sylvia Plath's poetry. In 1996 she was joint winner of the BBC Wildlife Magazine Poet of the Year Competition and won first prize in the Bluechrome Poetry Competition. Her debut pamphlet Seeing's Believing (Scratch, 1992) was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection Prize, and followed by Love Among the Guilty (Bloodaxe Books, 1995), Tesserae (Oversteps, 2003) and The Family Romance (Indigo Dreams, 2010). She also writes fiction: in 2002 her story 'Miss No-Name' was a runner up in the Fish Prize Competition and she has also won third prize in the 2001 Cadenza Short Story Competition.