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Julia Copus was born in London in 1969, within spitting distance of the Old Vic theatre, and is a poet, teacher and radio dramatist. She grew up in Hampshire, the only girl of four children. Her first collection The Shuttered Eye (Bloodaxe) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and her second, In Defence of Adultery, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. In 2003 she won First Prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Breaking the Rule’.

Brilliant Writing Tips for Students (Palgrave Macmillan) was published in 2009, and The Landlord’s Cat, a songbook for children, which was written in collaboration with her brother, Antony Copus, will appear in 2010.

She tutors regularly for the Arvon Foundation and The Poetry School, and is an Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter.

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