In 2001, she received writing awards from the Arts Council of England and the Authors Foundation, and in 2003, she collaborated with sculptor Stephen Broadbent to produce a poem inscribed on a bronze bench and sculpture in Fleming Square, Blackburn.
In 2001, she received writing awards from the Arts Council of England and the Authors Foundation, and the following year was one of six writers awarded a BBC/Gulbenkian Foundation writer's bursary. In 2003, she collaborated with sculptor Stephen Broadbent to produce a poem inscribed on a bronze bench and sculpture in Fleming Square, Blackburn.