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          Kate Clanchy

          British writer

          For the scientist, see Kate Clancy.

          Kate ClanchyMBE (born 1965) is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher.

          Education and early life

          She was born in 1965 in Glasgow to medieval historian Michael Clanchy and teacher Joan Clanchy (née Milne)[1][2] She was educated at George Watson's College, a private school in Edinburgh and at the University of Oxford, where she studied English.[3]

          Career

          She 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.[4] She is Writer in Residence for Sanctuary Arts[5] at Mansfield College, Oxford.

          In 2021 she wrote an essay about the deaths of both her parents from COVID-19.[6]

          Teaching

          Clanchy qualified as a teacher in 1989 and has taught since in several different institutions.

          Her memoir of her teaching experience,Some Kids I Taught and What