Helen Ivory is a poet and assemblage artist. Her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection is the semi-autobiographical Waiting for Bluebeard (May 2013).
She has co-edited with George Szirtes In Their Own Words:Contemporary Poets on their Poetry Salt 2012.
She teaches for the Arvon Foundation, The Poetry School and mentors for the Poetry Society.
She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is tutor and Course Director for the new UEA/Writers Centre Norwich online creative writing programme which launches in 2015.