Elected: 2025
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 Wim Vandekeybus / Ultima Vez. Her books have won the Forward Prize, the Seamus Heaney Prize, the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, and she is a Society of Authors Cholmondeley Award recipient. She lives in mid-Devon with her husband and their two daughters.
Fellows are nominated by peers and elected by our Council of writers – our governing Board. Being elected a Fellow of the RSL is a lifetime honour. This role gives them the opportunity to support other writers, readers and the future of literature. The RSL connects writers in the Fellowship to one another, and to a wider readership.
