Heather Clark is Professor of Poetry at the University of Huddersfield and the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, winner of the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the LA Times Book Prize; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association; and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast, 1962-1972, which won the Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature and the Donald Murphy Prize for Best First Book from the American Conference for Irish Studies.