Emma McGordon
May 28th, 2009 by sparky
Emma McGordon will perform at The Big Chill 2009.
Emma McGordon - Biography
Emma McGordon was born in West Cumbria in 1982. She left secondary school aged 16 to study A-levels at college before joining the local paper where she trained as a journalist until 2002.
At a poetry workshop in 1998 at Whitehaven she met the poet Barry Patrick MacSweeney who acted as her mentor and in the last twelve months spoke to her almost everyday on the phone. He published her first collection The Hangman and The Stars and she sites him as the single biggest influence on her writing and performing style.
In 2002 she left journalism to study English Literature at the University of Liverpool. She is now living back in West Cumbria with her partner, three dogs, four guitars and a cat.
Emma McGordon will perform at The Big Chill 2009.
