Elected: 2024
Vona is the author of 14 books, including eight poetry collections. She was a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library and subsequently published Hereafter: The Telling Life of Ellen O’Hara with New York University Press. Poet, essayist, reviewer, editor and former selector for the Poetry Book Society, she has taught at the University of Manchester since 2007 and is the current Writer in Residence at St John’s College, Cambridge.
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.
