Education
She studied at Street Hilda"s College in Oxford University, where she read English.
She studied at Street Hilda"s College in Oxford University, where she read English.
Born in Edinburgh, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. Leviston then began an Master of Arts in Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. Her second collection, Disinformation, also from Picador, was published in February 2015.
There she won 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. Leviston"s short story "Broderie Anglaise" was shortlisted for the British Broadcasting Corporation National Short Story Award 2015 and broadcast on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4.
