Polly Clark is a poet and short story writer. Her poetry was short listed for the TS Eliot Prize in 2005, won an Eric Gregory Award in 1997, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and 4 and widely published in periodicals and newspapers, including the London Review of Books, The Independent, Poetry Review and Poetry London. Polly's third collection of poetry Farewell My Lovely was published by Bloodaxe in 2009. Her first collection Kiss was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, and her second Take Me With You a Poetry Book Society Choice. Polly's short stories are published in the Comma Press anthologies Hyphen and Ellipsis. She reviews for The Guardian and is a Specialist Advisor in Literature for the Scottish Arts Council.

Polly has tutored for the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edinburgh University as well as for the Arvon Foundation and the Poetry School, and has also led workshops extensively in universities and schools. She focuses on one-to-one mentoring, believing this is the best way to help another writer make progress.