Fiona Benson

Fiona Benson was born in Wiltshire, England, and she earned her MLitt and PhD from the University of St Andrews. She is the author of the poetry collections Vertigo and Ghost (Cape, 2019), which received the Forward Prize for Best Collection and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and Bright Travellers (Cape, 2014), which received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre Prize for a First Full Collection, and was also shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. In 2018 Benson’s poem “Ruins,” included in Vertigo and Ghost, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She also received the Eric Gregory Award, from the Society of Authors, in 2006.

Benson lives in Devon, England with her husband and their two daughters.