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Born in Norfolk in 1971, Heidi lived in Stirling, Brussels, and Salisbury before returning to Norwich in 2001.Heidi’s day job is as manager of a team of advertising copywriters. She has studied poetry at the UEA, and reads and delivers workshops regularly throughout the UK.

In 2008 she received an Arts Council award to complete her first collection, Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, which was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize. She was poet-in-residence for the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre in 2008 and 2009. She is currently poet-in-residence for the John Jarrold Printing Museum.

She was short-listed for the Poetry Society Hamish Canham prize 2008 and poems were put forward for the Forward prize for Best Single Poem in 2008 and 2009. She won the Poetry Can Poetry Competition in 2009, was a runner up in the Mslexia Poetry Competition in 2007 and 2008, and joint winner of the Café Writers poetry competition in 2003.

Her work has been used in the Science, Art and Writing initiative to inspire poetry and science discussions with schoolchildren, and she was invited to read at the 2006 British Science Festival. Poems have also been displayed as part of the Salisbury Festival, and been included in the Poems in the Waiting Room initiative.

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Born in Norfolk in 1971, Heidi lived in Stirling, Brussels, and Salisbury before returning to Norwich in 2001.

Heidi’s day job is as manager of a team of advertising copywriters. She has studied poetry at the UEA, and reads and delivers workshops regularly throughout the UK.

Her first collection 'Electric Shadow' (Bloodaxe Books, 2011) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.

She was poet-in-residence for the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre in 2008 and 2009. She is currently poet-in-residence for the John Jarrold Printing Museum.

She was short-listed for the Poetry Society Hamish Canham prize 2008 and poems were put forward for the Forward prize for Best Single Poem in 2008 and 2009. She won the Poetry Can Poetry Competition in 2009, was a runner up in the Mslexia Poetry Competition in 2007 and 2008, and joint winner of the Café Writers poetry competition in 2003.

Her work has been used in the Science, Art and Writing initiative to inspire poetry and science discussions with schoolchildren, and she was invited to read at the 2006 British Science Festival. Poems have also been displayed as part of the Salisbury Festival, and been included in the Poems in the Waiting Room initiative.

Her poetry has also appeared in many journals including The Rialto, Guardian online, Smiths Knoll, Poetry News, Orbis, Mslexia, Smoke, Horizon Review,The Interpreter’s House, Iota, South and others.

In 2008 she received an Arts Council England Grant to complete her first collection, published by Bloodaxe Books in February 2011.