Susan Utting has worked as a barmaid, florist’s assistant, yoga
teacher, adult literacy tutor and in a Psychology Department. She has
run poetry workshops country wide and taught Poetry and Creative
Writing at Reading University since 1993. She was appointed Community
Laureate for the Arts Council's Year of the Artist 2000/2001 and
received the 2005-6 Creative Writing Fellowship from Reading
University’s School of English and American Literature. Her work has
won many prizes and awards, including a Poetry Business prize for the
collection, “Something Small is Missing” and has twice been
short-listed for the Arvon Poetry Prize. The collection “Striptease”
was published in 2001 by Smith/Doorstop Books.

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