| Katherine Pierpoint | |
| Birth Place: | Northampton, England |
| Occupation: | Poet |
| Alma Mater: | Exeter University |
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| Awards: | Somerset Maugham Award |
| Notable Works: | Truffle Beds (1995) |
Katherine Pierpoint (born 1961) is an English poet. She is best known for her book Truffle Beds which won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.
Pierpoint was born in Northampton in 1961.[1] She studied languages at University of Exeter. Before becoming a full-time writer, she worked in publishing and marketing.[2]
Truffle Beds, Pierpoint's first poetry book, was published in 1995 and won a Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her second book, a collection of translated poems by Coral Bracho, was written alongside Tom Boll and published in 2008.
She won a Hawthornden International Creative Writing Fellowship in 1993 and was named the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year in 1996.[3] She was the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Kent and was appointed the poet-in-residence at The King's School, Canterbury in 2006. Pierpoint's work has also appeared in the Spanish anthology La generación del cordero: antología de la poesía actual en las islas británicas.