photo of Heidi

Born in Norfolk in 1971, Heidi lived in Stirling, Brussels, and Salisbury before returning to Norwich in 2001.

Heidi’s day job is as manager of a team of advertising copywriters. She has studied poetry at the UEA, and reads regularly at local events in Norfolk.

Her poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, Poetry News, Orbis, Mslexia, Smoke, The Interpreter’s House, Iota, South and Penumbra. Her work has also been displayed as part of the Salisbury Festival, in NHS waiting rooms, and used in the Science, Art and Writing initiative to inspire poetry and science discussions with schoolchildren. Poems have featured on Jackie Kay’s Poetry Society blog and Guardian online.

She was shortlisted for the Poetry Society Hamish Canham prize 2008 and one of her poems has been put forward for the Forward prize for best single poem 2008. She was a runner up in the Mslexia Women’s Poetry Competition in 2007 and 2008, and joint winner of the Café Writers/ Pizza Express inaugural poetry competition in 2003.

She was invited to read at the 2006 British Science Festival and is currently poet-in-residence for the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre.

In 2008 she received an Arts Council England Grant to complete her first collection.