Frances Leviston

Frances Leviston (born 1982) is a British poet.

Born in Edinburgh, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University, where she read English. Leviston then began an MA in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. There she won their Ictus Prize in 2004, which led to the publication of her first pamphlet, Lighter. She won an Eric Gregory Award, for poets under 30 years of age, in 2006. Her first collection, Public Dream, is published by Picador, and was shortlisted in 2007 for the prestigious T. S. Eliot Prize.[1]

She edits the collective blog Verse Palace.

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