Kate Clanchy MBE was born on 1965 and is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher.
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Kate Clanchy was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy Kate Clanchy was educated at George Watson's College, a private school in Edinburgh and at the University of Oxford, where she studied English.
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Kate Clanchy lived in the East End of London for several years, before moving to Oxford where she was a fellow of Oxford Brookes University and served as City Poet.
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Kate Clanchy is Writer in Residence for Sanctuary Arts at Mansfield College, Oxford.
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Kate Clanchy published three poetry collections between 1996 and 2004.
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Kate Clanchy has written and adapted for BBC Radio since 2001 with 12 plays and serials produced, notably Hester, A Little Princess, which starred Adjoa Andoh and Enduring Love.
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In 2021, Kate Clanchy posted on Twitter encouraging followers to report a Goodreads review of Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me, stating that they had "made up a racist quote and said it was in my book".
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Kate Clanchy was criticised by other authors, including Chimene Suleyman, Monisha Rajesh and Sunny Singh, who received large amounts of abuse in the following months.
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In December 2021, Kate Clanchy published an article in Prospect magazine on the personal impact of public cancellation.
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Kate Clanchy subsequently wrote an article on sensitivity readers, which continued to be discussed in the following years.
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Kate Clanchy was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010 and resigned her fellowship in 2023.
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Kate Clanchy was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Birthday Honours.