Helen Mort
![Helen Mort in 2014](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Helen_Mort_%282014%29.jpg)
She is an alumna of Christ's College, Cambridge, from which she graduated with a degree in Social and Political Sciences in 2007. In 2014, she completed her Doctorate at Sheffield University with a Ph.D thesis in English/Neuroscience and her BlogSpot "Poetry on the Brain" was one of the Picador "Best Poetry Blogs" choices.
Her collection ''Division Street'' is published by Chatto & Windus and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and the T.S. Eliot Prize. In a national survey, it was chosen by sixth-form groups and reading groups as their first choice collection. She has published two pamphlets with Tall Lighthouse press. In 2014 she was named as a Next Generation poet by the Poetry Book Society. In 2023 her memoir, A Line Above the Sky, which had previously won the Boardman Tasker Prize, won the Jon Wyte prize at the Banff International Mountain Literature Festival.
Mort is currently Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.She edited the ''Verse Matters'' anthology with Rachel Bower who is a Fellow at the University of Leeds. She has appeared on radio programmes such as ''The Verb'', ''Poetry Please'', and ''Woman's Hour''. Individual poems have been published in the ''New Statesman'', "Ex-Industrial (a trailer)", and the ''Sunday Times'', "Admit you feel like all the ice skates in Brazil", as well as the magazines ''Poetry Review'', ''Granta'', ''The Rialto'', ''Poetry London'', ''The Manhattan Review'', and ''The North''.
In June 2018, Mort was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.
In 2020, she discovered that innocent photos of her had been used to create pornographic deepfake images. ''The Guardian'' made a 2023 documentary film, ''My Blonde GF'', about her experiences. Provided by Wikipedia
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