Anne Ryland

Anne Ryland’s first collection, Autumnologist (Arrowhead Press), was shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2006, and her second, The Unmothering Class (Arrowhead Press, 2011), was a New Writing North Read Regional choice. Herwork appears in anthologies including The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Valley Press), The Result is What You See Today – Poems About Running (Smith Doorstop), Land of Three Rivers – The Poetry of North-East England (Bloodaxe), and elsewhere. Her poems have been published in journals such as Poetry Review, Oxford Poetry, The North, Long Poem Magazine, Magma, Agenda, Stand, Butcher’s Dog, Poetry Salzburg Review, and Ink Sweat and Tears, among others. Competition successes include second prize in the International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She received a Northern Promise Award from New Writing North and a Distinction in Newcastle University’s MA in Writing Poetry. Anne is also a translator of German poetry.

Born and brought up in Essex, Anne spent her student years living in Bristol, Leeds and Bonn, moving to London following marriage. She and her husband moved North over twenty years ago. She works as a creative writing tutor in a range of community settings in her hometown, Berwick-upon-Tweed, and through Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. Anne is an advocate of the therapeutic and transformative power of writing poetry. She is an unhurried member of Tweed Striders running club.