Fiona Benson

Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron and, most recently, Midden Witch. All three of her first published collections were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize, and her books have won the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Her script Infamous Offspring, written for the Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez, has been performed across Europe and in the US. She has also edited two books of Ukrainian war poetry in translation – We Were Here by Artur Dron' (2024) and Dasein: In Defence of Presence by Yaryna Chornohuz (forthcoming). In 2024 she received a Cholmondley Award from the Society of Authors, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She lives in mid-Devon with her husband and their two daughters.