Kate Clanchy is the author of two prize-winning collections of poetry, 'Slattern' which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and a Somerset Maugham Award, and 'Samarkand', which was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her poetry has been broadcast by BBC Radio and published in The Scotsman, the New Statesman and Poetry Review. She writes for radio and broadcasts on the World Service and BBC Radio 3 and 4. Her poetry collection 'Newborn' covers pregnancy, birth and caring for a new baby, and she wrote a poetic picture book for children, 'Our Cat Henry Comes to the Swings'. 'What Is She Doing Here?: A Refugee's Story' (2008) won the 2008 Writers' Guild Award (Best Book) and in 2013 her first novel 'Meeting the English' was published.