Heather Clark

Heather Clark is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield in Yorkshire, England. A recipient of a 2017-18 NEH Public Scholar Fellowship and a 2016-17 Leon Levy Biography Fellowship at the Graduate Center, CUNY, she is the author of the award-winning The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972. Her biography of Sylvia Plath will be published by Knopf in 2020.