Lucy Ingrams has won the £10,000 Manchester poetry prize for a best portfolio of three to five poems, with a maximum combined length of 120 lines. She has also won the Birkbeck Michael Donaghy poetry prize and is currently studying on the MPhil creative writing programme at the University of South Wales with Philip Gross. Ingrams lives in Oxford, where she works as a nursery school teacher. The other shortlisted poets for the prize were Tess Barry, Kierstin Bridger, Cath Drake, Linda France, and Lindsey Holland.