{"id":31,"date":"2024-10-31T18:46:41","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T18:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tse.spyrosntanos.com\/person\/fiona-benson\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:50:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T10:50:52","slug":"fiona-benson","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/person\/fiona-benson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Benson"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"AuthorCard_bio-content__Q8B1X \">\r\n<div class=\"AuthorCard_bio__B8C_j\">Fiona Benson lives in Devon with her husband and their two daughters. She has published three previous collections of poetry, all of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: <i>Bright Travellers<\/i>, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry&#8217;s Prize for First Full Collection, <i>Vertigo &amp; Ghost<\/i>, which was shortlisted for the 2019 Rathbones Folio Prize and won both the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and <i>Ephemeron<\/i>, which was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize and the London Hellenic Prize. <em>Author photo \u00a9 Jessica Farmer<\/em><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiona Benson lives in Devon with her husband and their two daughters. She has published three previous collections of poetry, all of which were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize: Bright Travellers, which won the 2015 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry&#8217;s Prize for First Full Collection, Vertigo &amp; Ghost, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":531,"parent":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-31","person","type-person","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person\/31","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\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tseliot.com\/prize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}