Heather Clark earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship, a Leon Levy 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 THE GRIEF OF INFLUENCE: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and THE ULSTER RENAISSANCE: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972. Her work has appeared in publications including Harvard Review and The Times Literary Supplement, and she recently served as the scholarly consultant for the BBC documentary Sylvia Plath: Life Inside the Bell Jar. 

She divides her time between Chappaqua, New York and Yorkshire, England, where she is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield.