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Ruth Fainlight
Ruth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. She was educated in the US and England, and has lived in England since the age of 15, mostly in London. She was Poet in Residence ...view moreRuth Fainlight was born in New York City in 1931. She was educated in the US and England, and has lived in England since the age of 15, mostly in London. She was Poet in Residence at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, in 1985 and 1990, and Writing Tutor at the Performing Arts Labs, International Opera and Music Theatre Labs in the UK in 1997-99. She lives in London, and was married to the late Alan Sillitoe. Her latest collection Somewhere Else Entirely (2018) is her first book of poems since New & Collected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2010), which drew on over a dozen collections published over 50 years. Four of those collections were originally published by Bloodaxe, including Sugar-Paper Blue (1997), which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award. Other collections were published by Macmillan, Hutchinson and Sinclair-Stevenson.view less