Jen Hadfield

Jen Hadfield (born 1978) is a British poet and visual artist. She has published four poetry collections. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003.

Hadfield's poems and visual art are based on her experience of living, working and traveling in Shetland and the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, and Canada. She grew up in Cheshire, England.

Hadfield has been a professional poet since 2002. In 2003, she won the Eric Gregory Award, which enabled a year of travel and writing in Canada. Hadfield was winner of the Edwin Morgan International Poetry Award in 2012. and selected in 2014 as one of "Next Generation Poets", a promotion organised by the Poetry Book Society. Her fourth collection, The Stone Age, won the Highland Book Prize in 2021. Other honours include the Scottish Arts Council Bursary Award, and residencies with the Shetland Arts Trust and the Scottish Poetry Library.

Hadfield lives on Burra in Shetland, where she works as a poet and writing tutor.

Hadfield has said "We live in painful times, in a difficult world, and yet the world is still overwhelmingly magical. Poetry gives us a chance to stop, reflect, process, cope, grieve and revere".