Biography

Jeanette Burton

Jeanette Burton is a poet and English teacher from Derbyshire. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Nottingham Trent University. She was awarded first place in the McLellan Poetry Prize 2021 and the Ware Poetry Prize 2022, and was highly commended in both the Wales Poetry Award 2021and the Teignmouth Poetry Festival Open Competition 2022. Her pamphlet, What is this a family outing? was shortlisted for the inaugural Poetry Wales Pamphlet Competition 2021. Her poetry has appeared in Poetry Wales and Mslexia, and she is also a tutor for The Writing School.

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