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. Her books have won numerous accolades, including the Forward Prize and the Seamus Heaney Prize for Poetry. 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, by the soldier poets Artur Dron' and Yaryna Chornohuz.