Katherine Pierpoint

Katherine Pierpoint (born 1961) is an English poet. She is best known for her book Truffle Beds which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961.^[1] She studied languages at University of Exeter. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in publishing and marketing.^[2]

Truffle Beds, Pierpoint's first poetry book, was published in 1995 and won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.^[1] Her second book, a collection of translated poems by Coral Bracho, was written alongside Tom Boll and published in 2008.^[2]

She won a Hawthornden International Creative Writing Fellowship in 1993^[2] and was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1996.^[3] She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent and was appointed the poet-in-residence at The King's School, Canterbury in 2006.^[2] Pierpoint's work has also appeared in the Spanish anthology La generación del cordero: antología de la poesía actual en las islas británicas.^[1]