Rees-Jones, Deryn

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Rees-Jones, Deryn

PERSONAL:

Female. Education: University of Wales, University College of North Wales, Bangor, 1986-90, B.A. (with honors), M.A.; Birkbeck College, London, Ph.D., 1995.

ADDRESSES:

Office—School of English, Modern Languages Bldg., University of Liverpool, Chatham St., Liverpool L69 England.

CAREER:

Liverpool Hope University College, Liverpool, England, former reader in poetry; University of Liverpool, Liverpool, lecturer in English.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Eric Gregory Award, 1993; writers' award, Arts Council of England, 1996; named Next Generation Poet, 2004.

WRITINGS:

The Memory Tray (poetry), Seren (Bridgend, Wales), 1993, Dufour (Chester Springs, PA), 1994.

Signs round a Dead Body (poetry), Seren (Bridgend, Wales), 1998.

Carol Ann Duffy, Northcote House (Plymouth, England), 1998, 2nd edition, 2001.

(Editor, with Alison Mark) Contemporary Women Poets: Reading/Writing/Practice, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2000.

Quiver (poetry), Seren (Bridgend, Wales), 2004.

(Editor) Consorting with Angels: Essays on Modern Women Poets, Bloodaxe Books (Tarset, England), 2005.

Poetry represented in anthologies, including Seven Poets and a City, edited by Peter Robinson, Liverpool University, 1996.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Times Literary Supplement, April 23, 1999, Richard Tyrrell, review of Signs round a Dead Body, p. 26.

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