Vicki Feaver was born in Nottingham in 1943 and studied at Durham and University College, London. She has published three previous collections, Close Relatives (1981), The Handless Maiden (1994) and The Book of Blood (2006), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize and Costa Award for Poetry. She received the W.H. Heinemann Award in 1994 and the Cholmondeley Award in 1999.
