About the Author

Kate McLoughlin lectures in English Literature at Birkbeck College. She is the author of 'Martha Gellhorn: The War Writer in the Field and in the Text' (2007) and 'Authoring War: The Literary Representation of War from the Iliad to Iraq' (2011), editor of 'The Cambridge Companion to War Writing' (2010) and co-editor of 'Tove Jansson Rediscovered' (2007) and 'Memory, Mourning, Landscape' (2009). Born in Birkenhead, Kate is an Associate of the Royal College of Music in piano performance. 'Plums' is her first book of poems.