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Carol Ann Duffy lives in Manchester, where she is Professor and Creative Director of the Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has received many awards, including the Signal Prize for Children's Verse, the Whitbread, Forward and T. S. Eliot Prizes, and the Lannan and E. M. Forster Prize in America. She was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 2009 to 2019. Her many collections include Mean Time, Love Poems and The Bees, which won the Costa Poetry Award. Her writing for children includes Queen Munch and Queen Nibble, The Skipping-Rope Snake and The Tear Thief. She was made a DBE in the 2015 New Year Honours list. In 2021, she was awarded the international lifetime achievement award the Golden Wreath for her achievements in poetry. Julia Klenovsky, lives and works as an illustrator and artist in Halle (Saale), Germany. She creates and researches on a spectrum from queer-feminist to pop-cultural themes and their connections. Her illustrative work has been honoured with several awards, including the Certificate of Typographic Excellence and has been shortlisted for the Young Book Design Award.
After her studies at University of Applied Sciences Augsburg and the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, she is about to complete her master's degree in illustration at the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle. Alongside her studies, she illustrates her own stories and books for international clients. |
