Helen Lamb (1956–27 March 2017) was an award-winning Scottish poet and short story writer who also worked with the cancer caring Maggie's Centres in the Forth Valley promoting the role of writing in well-being.
Personal life
Lamb was a writer, educator, mother and grandmother who lived in Dunblane with Chris Powici, who is also a poet, former editor of literary magazine Northwords and a teaching fellow at the University of Stirling.
Career
Her poetry has been published in literary journals and in the joint anthology Strange Fish along with fellow poet Magi Gibson. She also published a short story collection entitled Superior Bedsits and many of her stories were broadcast on radio. Her work has been featured in other general anthologies and she was one of the writers included in Working Words: Scottish creative writing, which was designed to promote creative writing in schools. Her poem "Spell of the Bridge" was one of those reproduced on a postcard for National Poetry Day in 2007. Lamb worked at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling as a Royal Literary Fund Fellow, tutoring in creative writing. As well as working with cancer charity Maggie's Centres, Lamb also worked with adult survivors of childhood abuse, editing anthologies of their writings. She died suddenly in 2017 shortly after finishing her first novel Three Kinds of Kissing, described by fellow author Tracey Emerson as "a subtly devastating wonder".
Awards
Lamb won the Scotland on Sunday/Women 2000 prize for her story "Long Grass, Moon City".
