Carol Ann Duffy

Carol Ann Duffy is a Scottish poet and playwright whose work often combines dramatic monologue, wit, and feminist reinterpretations of familiar stories. Her major collections include *Standing Female Nude*, *Mean Time*, *The World’s Wife*, and *Rapture*, which won the T. S. Eliot Prize. Appointed UK Poet Laureate in 2009, she was the first woman and first Scottish-born writer to hold the position, serving until 2019. She has also written extensively for children and the stage.