Holland, Jane

Jane Holland is an English poet, novelist and critic, born in Essex in 1966. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1996. Her first collection, The Brief History of a Disreputable Woman, was published by Bloodaxe in 1997. A first novel, Kissing the Pink, followed from Sceptre in 1999. Her second collection of poetry Boudicca & Co. was published by Salt in 2006. She lives in Warwickshire with her husband and five children, where she is Warwick Poet Laureate for 2007-08.