ABOUT

I’ve been writing for a long time. I first appeared in a magazine alongside a new poem by Seamus Heaney. In response to the magazine, Philip Hobsbaum wrote, ‘among the lesser known poet, Tracey Hope shows much potential and considerable present power’.

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Like many young people, I took no notice, and it was over twenty years before I decided to take an MA in Creative Writing. I absolutely loved the course. Life was full of work and children. I was living in the Yorkshire Dales and I found my muse in Gunnerside. I became obsessed with the way in which the old industrial remains of the lead mining industry were being reclaimed by the landscape.

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I've had some success: publication in erbacce, Orbis and The Lake. But more than this, I have found space. Currently, I have a contract to publish  book length collection with erbacce.