{"id":1123,"date":"2024-11-26T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/?post_type=person&#038;p=1123"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:16:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T11:16:24","slug":"lavinia-greenlaw","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/lavinia-greenlaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavinia Greenlaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She has published six collections of poetry with Faber &amp; Faber, including: <em>Minsk<\/em> (2003), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes; <em>The Casual Perfect<\/em> (2011); <em>A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde<\/em> (2014), which was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award; and <em>The Built Moment<\/em> (2019), winner of Winner of the East Anglian Book Award for Poetry. Her <em>Selected Poems<\/em> was published in 2024. She has also written novels, including <em>In the City of Love\u2019s Sleep<\/em> (2018), and non-fiction, including <em>The<\/em> <em>Importance of Music to Girls<\/em> (2007), <em>Some Answers Without Questions<\/em> (2021) and <em>The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further<\/em> (2024). Her sound work,\u00a0<em>Audio Obscura,<\/em> commissioned by Artangel and Manchester International Festival, won the 2011 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. She currently holds the Chair in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2023 she was appointed Poetry Editor of Faber &amp; Faber. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Isaac Hargreaves<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laviniagreenlaw.com\/\">www.laviniagreenlaw.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavinia Greenlaw was born in London. She has published six collections of poetry with Faber &amp; Faber, including: Minsk (2003), which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes; The Casual Perfect (2011); A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde (2014), which was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa Poetry Award; and The Built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1124,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-1123","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/person"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}