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- Born: December 23, 1955
- Parents: Mary Black and Frank Duffy, both of Irish Catholic descent
- Four younger brothers
- Raised in Staffordshire in the West Midlands of England until she was six years old, then moved to Stafford, England
- Father worked as a fitter with English Electric
- Attended Saint Austin's RC Primary School, went on to Joseph's Convent School, and then Stafford Girl's High School
-Began publishing poetry in magazines at 14
- At 15, one of her teachers, June Scriven, sent Duffy's poem to a publisher, who was impressed by them and thus published them

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- Started a relationship with the poet Adrian Henri, living with him till 1982
- Enrolled in the University of Liverpool in 1977, where she received a degree in philosophy
- Her first job was writing for television shows, followed by a C. Day Lewis Fellowship to work as a writer-in-residence in East End schools of London from 1982 and 1984.
- She worked as a poetry critic for The Guardian from 1988 to 1989 and as an editor for the poetry magazine Ambit
- In 1996 she began lecturing in poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University, where she later became the creative director of the Writing School.
- With her 1993 collection, Mean Time, and 1994’s Selected Poems, she would begin to also write about queer love.

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- Costa Book Awards (1993, 2011)
- Whitbread Poetry Award (1993)
- Forward Poetry Prize (1990)
- Scottish Arts Council Award (1985)
- Somerset Maugham Award (1987)
- T.S. Elliot Prize (2005)
- Costa Poetry Award (2011)
- Signal Poetry Award (1997)
- CBE (2001)
- Cholmondeley Award (1992)
- Dylan Thomas Award (1989)
- Eric Gregory Award (1984)
- C Day Lewis Fellowship (1982)
- Received a five-year grant from the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts in England, a Lannan Literary Award, and the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize
- In 1999, she became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in England and her papers were acquired by the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University.

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- Duffy’s poetry has always been strong and feminist
- Duffy deconstructs the traditional beliefs of what an ideal woman should be
- Her poems are accessible and entertaining, yet her form is classical, her technique razor-sharp
- Reviewers praise her touching, sensitive, witty evocations of love, loss, dislocation, and nostalgia; fans talk of greeting her at readings with claps and cheers that would not sound out of place at a rock concert.
- Carol Ann Duffy's collection The World's Wife, borne from the tenets of third-wave feminism, successfully rewrote male-dominated authorship. It presents the reader with female figures that, although not always admirable, are consistently strong.

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- Feminist Movement
- Women Empowerment Acts
- Modernism
- Post-Modernism

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