Fiona Benson was the winner of the Michael Marks Greek Bicentennial Poetry Prize, with her portfolio Ariadne, published in the winners’ pamphlet of the same name. Her third collection Ephemeron was shortlisted for the 2022 T.S. Eliot Prize and Rathbones Folio Prize. Her second book, Vertigo & Ghost won the Forward Poetry Prize. Bright Travellers received the Seamus Heaney Prize for first collection and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. She lives in mid-Devon with her husband and their two daughters.
