Heidi is a poet, writing tutor, and mentor. She has over twenty years’ experience developing and delivering writing workshops for a wide range of organisations.

Heidi runs a Reading Group for the Royal Literary Fund and has been an RLF Advisory Fellow and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of East Anglia. Previously Heidi was Poet-in-Residence for the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre and Writer-in-Residence at the John Jarrold Printing Museum.

She teaches a monthly poetry seminar for The Poetry School and mentors poets world-wide on Zoom through The Poetry Society, the National Centre for WritingThe Poetry School and The Writing Coach. Heidi also peer reviews poetry and short prose for San Diego based journal Whale Road Review.

Her first collection ‘Electric Shadow’ (Bloodaxe, 2011) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for Poetry. Her second collection, ‘The Print Museum’ (Bloodaxe, 2016), won the EAW Book by the Cover Award and the 2016 East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Her third collection ‘Return by Minor Road’ was published by Bloodaxe in June 2020, featured in The Guardian and was a Poetry Society and Out-Spoken Press Book of the Year. Her short story Glacial was shortlisted for the 2021/22 Fish International Short Story Prize.

She is a qualified Writing Coach and studied poetry and prose at the University of East Anglia. She has a Masters in Creative Writing (with Distinction) from Oxford University (Keble College).

Latest News

Reading at Rise Up! York

I'm looking forward to reading in York at Bluebird Bakery's Rise Up! evening on 30th October and hearing James Giddings and Wendy Allen read. Do come along for a poetry fix if you're in the area....

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The Writing Life podcast

A new episode of The Writing Life podcast from the National Centre for Writing features me and award-winning poet Rebecca Goss talking about approaching the natural world as an archive of...

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Poetry School Advanced Seminars

Each year I run Advanced Seminars for the Poetry School and it's a delight to work with such interesting writers. Places are by application only - and there are a couple of spaces left if you know...

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