Frances Leviston was born in Edinburgh in 1982, and grew up in Sheffield. She read English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford, where she won the Lord Alfred Douglas Prize for Poetry in 2003. She has an MA in Writing from Sheffield Hallam University. Her pamphlet Lighter (Mews Press, 2004) was selected as the PBS Bulletin Pamphlet Choice for Spring 2005, and her poems have appeared in the Times, the TLS, British Council/Granta New Writing 14, Poetry London, Poetry Review and AnOther Magazine. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2006. Her first collection, Public Dream, was published by Picador in 2007. She has worked as a bookseller, a secretary, a writing tutor, and a snowboarding instructor, and has reviewed poetry for publications including the TLS, the Guardian, and the Yorkshire Post.

Frances Leviston 2008