Kerry Hardie was born in Singapore in 1951 and grew up in County Down. Once a journalist for the BBC, she is now known for her poetry and novels. In a review of her second collection, Cry for the Hot Belly (Gallery, 2000), Michael Longley declared, “She looks like the real thing alright, an original talent.” Over her writing career to date she has won the Hennessy Prize, the Michael Hartnett Award, the Friends Provident National Poetry Prize, the Patrick and Kathleen Kavanagh Award and the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award. Scholarships and residencies have taken her around the world to countries including Australia, France and China.
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