HEATHER CLARK earned her bachelor’s degree in English literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize, a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar fellowship; a Leon Levy Center for Biography fellowship at the City University of New York; and a Visiting U.S. Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library. A former Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, she is the author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, which has been translated into five languages; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972. Red Comet was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Critics Circle Award, and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography, and was a New York Times top 10 book of 2021. Clark’s work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, Harvard Review, Time, Air Mail, Literary Hub, and the Times Literary Supplement. She lives outside of New York.
