Hilary Menos Author & Editor

Hilary Menos was born in Luton in 1964, studied PPE at Wadham College, Oxford and worked as a journalist and restaurant critic in London. Her first collection, 'Berg' (Seren, 2009), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2010. She has won or placed in a number of poetry competitions including the Bridport, Mslexia and the National. She has published poems in numerous places including the BBC Wildlife Magazine, and read her Work at events alongside Dannie Abse and Seamus Heaney. Her pamphlet, 'Wheelbarrow Farm', was one of the four winners of the Templar Poetry Pamphlet Competition in 2010.