Simon Armitage has won numerous awards for his poetry, including a Forward Prize, the Sunday Times Young Author of the Year, the Eric Gregory Award, and a Lannan Award, in addition to being shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Winterbread Poetry Award (for the Dead Sea Poems). His first US publication, The Shout, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics' Circle Award in 2005. He is the author of the bestselling prose memoir All Points North and the novels Little Green Man and The White Stuff. Armitage lives in West Yorkshire, UK.