Frances Leviston read English at St Hilda's College, Oxford. In 2006 she received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. Public Dream, her first collection, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and the Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the London Review of Books, the Guardian, the Times, the TLS, and various anthologies. She works as a freelance writer and an occasional writing tutor.