Biography (longer version):
Clare Best’s first full collection, Excisions, was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize 2012. Other poetry publications include Treasure Ground, Breastless, CELL, Springlines, Each Other and End of Season / Fine di stagione. Her most recent collection is Beyond the Gate (Worple Press, 2023). Clare’s prose memoir The Missing List was a finalist in the Mslexia Memoir Competition 2015 and was published in September 2018. She has held writing residencies in a range of settings including HMP Shepton Mallet, Woodlands Organic Farm on the Lincolnshire Fens and the University of Brighton. In 2020 Clare was awarded a MA (Distinction) in Opera Making at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and was a Fellow there in 2020-2021; during this time she co-created three chamber operas, a song cycle, and several other vocal projects. Clare has been a fine bookbinder, a bookseller and an editor. She teaches Creative Writing for the Open University and is a Tutor for the Arvon Foundation.
Website: www.clarebest.co.uk
Twitter: @clarebest1
Biography (shorter version):
Clare Best’s latest books are her prose memoir The Missing List (Linen Press, 2018), the bilingual pamphlet End of Season / Fine di stagione (Frogmore Press 2022) and her third full collection of poetry Beyond the Gate (Worple Press 2023). Recent work in Envoi, The Rialto, 14 Magazine, Magma and The Friday Poem.
Website: www.clarebest.co.uk
Twitter: @clarebest1
A full CV is available on request – please contact Clare.
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