Fiona
Sampson is a leading British poet and writer, published in thirty-eight
languages, who has received a number of awards in the US, India and Europe. A
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, of the English Association and of
the Wordsworth Trust, she’s published twenty-seven books and received an MBE for
Services to Literature. Emeritus Professor of the University of Roehampton, she
has served on the Council of the Royal Society of Literature and is a Trustee
of the Royal Literary Fund. Other honours include the Newdigate Prize,
Cholmondeley Prize, Hawthornden Fellowship, and numerous awards from the Arts
Councils of England and of Wales, Society of Authors, Poetry Book Society and
the Arts and Humanities Research Council, as well as various national Book of
the Year selections. She recently received the 2019 Naim Frashëri
Laureateship of Albania and Macedonia, and the 2020 European Lyric Atlas Prize,
Bosnia. She’s also a broadcaster and newspaper critic, librettist and
literary translator, and was editor of Poetry Review 2005-12.
Her internationally acclaimed In Search of Mary Shelley was shortlisted
for the Biographers’ Club Slightly Foxed Prize, and Two-Way Mirror: The
life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (UK - Profile; US – W.W. Norton)
appeared to critical acclaim this spring.