Acclaimed Poet, Biographer and Novelist Ruth Padel joins UA

Ruth Padel is a prize-winning British poet and writer. This year she is publishing three books: her first novel, Where the Serpent Lives, three poetry lectures, Silent Letters of the Alphabet,
and an introduction to the poems of Walter Raleigh. She is a Fellow of
the Royal Society of Literature and Zoological Society of London, a
Member of Bombay Natural History Society and a Bye-Fellow of Christ's
College, Cambridge. Her poems have been widely anthologized and
broadcast and her collectons have been shortlisted for all major
British prizes.

Ruth's awards
include First Prize in the National Poetry Competition, a Cholmeley
Award from the Society of Authors, an Arts Council of England Writers'
Award and a British Council Darwin Now Research Award.

For more information please visit www.ruthpadel.com