Rebecca Goss and Tiffany Atkinson
Poetry and Prose Readings at the Octagon
22 February 2010
Rebecca Goss and Tiffany Atkinson
Hospitality Room
Born in 1974, Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk and now lives in Liverpool. Her pamphlet collection Keeping Houston Time was published by Slow Dancer Press in 1997.
She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and was winner of the North West Arts young writer's bursary 1997/98. She taught creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University for several years.
Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines and her work can be found in various anthologies including Images of Women, an anthology of contemporary female poets, and two anthologies of contemporary poetry: In the Telling and The Poets Perspective.
Two of her poems have been made into 'poem-films' for Comma Film, a Literature North West project run in conjunction with Comma Press, dedicated to collaborations between local filmmakers and writers.
Tiffany Atkinson was born in Berlin in 1972 to an army family, and lived in Germany, Cyprus and Britain. After studying English at Birmingham University she started a PhD in 1993 at Cardiff University in Critical Theory, researching Contemporary Writing and Theories of the Body. Tiffany has lived in Wales ever since. She lectures in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she also co–hosts a weekly poems and–pints event. Her poetry has appeared widely in magazines.
Her current critical and theoretical projects include a volume of essays for Macmillan on Theories of the Body, and a monograph concerned with Contemporary Theories of Identity.
She has toured widely in Eastern Europe for the British Council, leading both writers' workshops and academic seminars. Tiffany won the BBC Radio Young Poet of the Year Competition in 1993 and 1994, and the Ottakar's and Faber Poetry Competition in 2000. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Life, Sampler and The Telegraph. Her latest title Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Award 2007. It is also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.