Fiona Larkin
Fiona Larkin (1983, English) is a poet, whose debut collection, Rope of Sand, was published by Pindrop Press in 2023. The title poem was highly commended in the Forward Prizes.
Her pamphlets are Vital Capacity (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) and A Dovetail of Breath (Rack Press, 2020). Her poems are widely published in journals and anthologies, including The London Magazine, The Spectator, Shearsman, Stand, Magma, The Forward Book of Poetry 2020 and Anne-thology: Poems Re-Presenting Anne Shakespeare (Broken Sleep Books, 2023).
Projects with Corrupted Poetry include editing the anthology Living with other people (Corrupted Editions, 2022), the staging of a series of live events, most recently at the Bloomsbury Festival 2023, and the guest editorship of the poetry journal Finished Creatures. In recent years, she has judged the poetry collection competitions organised for prisoners by Koestler Arts, and in 2024 the single poem prize for the Society of Women Writers and Journalists.
She was born in London to Irish parents. She was a member of the Hall Writers Forum in its earlier days, and she completed an MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway University of London in 2017. She has three sons, and lives with her partner Edward Hayes (1983, Jurisprudence) in Kingston upon Thames.
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