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Born & raised in Glasgow, Scotland until the age of 6 when her family moved to Stafford, England. Duffy grew up attending convent schools and began publishing her poetry in magazines at age 14. She later attended Liverpool University (Britainnica).

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She received a degree in philosophy from Liverpool University in 1977. 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 (Britainnica).

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Her adult poetry collections are Standing Female Nude (1985), winner of a Scottish Arts Council Award; Selling Manhattan (1987), which won a Somerset Maugham Award; The Other Country (1990); Mean Time (1993), which won the Whitbread Poetry Award and the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year). In addition, her work is widely recommended and received well. (British Council)

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Duffy’s themes include language and the representation of reality, the construction of the self, gender issues, contemporary culture, along with many different forms of alienation, oppression and social inequality. She writes in everyday language, making her poems appear offly simple (British Council).

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Duffy often includes literary movements such as feminism, modernism, and anti-traditionalism. (Poetry Foundation)