Heather Clark

Heather Clark is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath (Knopf, 2020), a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and a New York Times Top Ten Book of 2021. She is also the author of The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes (Oxford University Press, 2011) and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972 (Oxford University Press, 2006). Her awards include the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship; a Leon Levy Biography Fellowship at the City University of New York; and a Visiting US Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harvard Review, Time, Air Mail, Lit Hub, and The Times Literary Supplement. She divides her time between New York and Yorkshire, England, where she is professor of contemporary poetry at the University of Huddersfield.