Long biographical note
Siân Hughes was born in 1965 and grew up in a village in Cheshire. She studied English at Durham, Birmingham and Reading, and is now a postgraduate student at The University of Warwick. She has lived in Birmingham, Stafford, Manchester, London, Devizes and Oxford, sometimes with a partner, but more often alone, and now lives more or less in the middle of nowhere with her two young children.
She has worked as an infant teacher, a community publishing worker, education officer for The Poetry Society, English lecturer, journalist, writer-in-residence, shop assistant, life-model, washer-up, sandwich-maker, mother and step-mother.
Out of sheer rage that her second novel was not good enough to get published, she began writing poetry on an Arvon course in 1994, and in 1996 won the TLS / Poems on the Underground competition with "Secret Lives". She published a pamphlet of poems "Saltpetre" with smith/doorstop in 1998 and in 2000 won a Southern Arts Award for Poetry. Her work appeared in Anvil New Poets III in 2001. In 2006 she won first prize in The Arvon Poetry Competition with "The Send-Off", an elegy for her third child.
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