Blake Morrison
Blake Morrison was born in Yorkshire and was formerly literary editor of the Observer and the Independent on Sunday. He has a huge number of publications including two bestselling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? and Things My Mother Never Told Me; a children’s book, The Yellow House; poetry collections Dark Glasses, The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper, Discoverie of Witches, This Poem and Shingle Street; and four novels, including The Last Weekend and The Executor. He has won various awards, including the Eric Gregory, EM Forster and JR Ackerley prizes. His latest memoir, Two Sisters, comes out in 2023 along with two poetry pamphlets. He has been professor of creative and life writing at Goldsmiths University since 2003.