Duffy, Carol Ann

Carol Ann Duffy is the author or editor of several volumes of poetry, including "The World's Wife", "Rapture", and also books for children. She has received, among other honors, the Forward Prize, the Whitbread Poetry Award, the Lannan Award, and the E. M. Forster Prize for her work. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Duffy lives in Manchester, England, and is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University.