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Ruth Padel was born in an attic in Wimpole Street in London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and also the Zoological Society of London, a member of the Bombay Natural History and Royal Geographical Societies. As Chair of the UK Poetry Society she oversaw radical change. She has won the National Poetry Competition and published six collections of short poems. Four have been Poetry Book Society Choice or Recommendation, shortlisted for the T S Eliot and/or Whitbread Prizes. Ruth lives freelance in London, from poetry readings, reviewing, writing and broadcasting, and tries to answer as few emails as possible. Her novel featuring king cobras will be published in 2009 along with a new book of poems.