Fiona Benson

Fiona Benson is the author of four poetry collections: Bright Travellers, Vertigo & Ghost, Ephemeron and Midden Witch, and one poetry script Infamous Offspring in collaboration with the Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus. Between them, her books have won numerous accolades including the Forward Prize and the Seamus Heaney Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Cholmondeley Award recipient. She has edited two books of Ukrainian poetry in translation