Ruth Yates
Ruth lives in Sheffield.
Four times winner of the Foyle Young Poets Award, her poems have been shortlisted for the Eric Gregory Award and Disabled Poets Prize; highly commended in the Resurgence Poetry Prize; and commended in the Verve Poetry Festival Competition.
Her poems have appeared in Cadaverine, Route 57; Mslexia Writing Squad booklet; Carmen et Error; Pennine Platform; and The North; and in anthologies including 'Introduction X: The Poetry Business Book of New Poets' and 'Like Flyering for the Revolution: The Verve Anthology of Protest'.
She was commissioned to produce work for Manchester Festival of Libraries in 2021, in collaboration with creative technologist Chris Ball, The Writing Squad, and Future Everything; and has collaborated in online projects including 'A Diary of Windows and Small Things' and 'Staying Home'.
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