Frances Leviston (born 1982) is a British poet.
Biography
editBorn in Edinburgh, Scotland, 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, winning 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, was published by Picador in 2007 and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her second collection, Disinformation, also from Picador, was published in February 2015. Leviston's short story "Broderie Anglaise" was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4.[1]
Her first novel, The Voice in My Ear, was published in 2020.[2]
Leviston is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester.[3]
Selected works
editNovels
edit- The Voice in My Ear, 2020
Poetry collections
edit- Public Dream, 2007
- Disinformation, 2015
Poems
edit- "High force", 2019[4]
References
edit- ^ "Broderie Anglaise, by Frances Leviston | BBC National Short Story Award 2015, BBC Radio Four.
- ^ Feigel, Lara (14 March 2020), "The Voice in My Ear by Frances Leviston review – sly, truthful stories", The Guardian.
- ^ "Frances Leviston".
- ^ "High force". The New Yorker. 95 (14): 35. 27 May 2019.
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