Jen Hadfield author page

Jen Hadfield biography

Jen Hadfield is a poet and visual artist. She was born in Cheshire, England, in 1978, to Canadian and British parents. She earned a BA from the University of Edinburgh and an MLitt in creative writing from the University of Strathclyde and the University of Glasgow.

Her poetry collections include Almanacs, Nigh-No-Place, Byssus and The Stone Age. Almanacs won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Nigh-No-Place won the T. S. Eliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. She won the Edwin Morgan Poetry Competition in 2012.

Hadfield is also a bookmaker and has worked with visual art. In 2007, she received a DeWar Award to travel to Mexico and study Mexican devotional folk art. She provided photographs for the collaborative artists’ book The Printer’s Devil and the Little Bear.

The Stone Age was published by Picador on 18 March 2021 and won the Highland Book Prize in 2022. Storm Pegs was published by Picador on 11 July 2024.