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Fiona Ruth Sampson, MBE is an English poet and writer. She is published in thirty-seven languages and has received a number of national and international awards for her writing.

Sampson was educated at the Royal Academy of Music, and following a brief career as a concert violinist, studied at Oxford University, where she won the Newdigate Prize. She gained a PhD in the philosophy of language from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. She advises internationally on creative writing in healthcare, a field whose development she pioneered in a number of projects and publications. As a young poet she was the founder-director of Poetryfest – the Aberystwyth International Poetry Festival and the founding editor of Orient Express, a journal of contemporary writing from Europe. She has received a number of international writers' fellowships: I.A. Literary Association, Skojcan, Slovenia, 2015, Greek Writers’ Union Writers’ and Translators’ House, Paros, 2011, Estonian Writers’ Union House, Kasmu, 2009, Heinrich Boll House, Achill Island, 2005, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, 2002, Hawthornden Castle, 2001, Fondacion da Casa de Mateus, Portugal, 2001. She held an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University 2002-5, a CAPITAL Fellowship in Creativity at the University of Warwick 2007-8 and a Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Institute of Musical Research & Institute of English Studies: 2012-15.

From 2005-12, Sampson was the editor of Poetry Review, the oldest and most widely read poetry journal in the UK. She was the first woman editor of the journal since Muriel Spark . In January 2013 she founded Poem, a quarterly international review, published by the University of Roehampton, where Sampson is Professor of Poetry and the Director of Roehampton Poetry Centre.

She lives in Herefordshire.

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Books from Fiona Sampson

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Poetry Writing: The Expert Guide

Beyond the Lyric

Limestone Country

Writing: Self and Reflexivity

A Fine Line: New Poetry From Eastern and Central Europe

Poem

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Two-Way Mirror: The Life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poetry Review Autumn 2008: Where Now for Political Culture? 98:3: (Autumn 2008 98:3)

Orient Express Histories, Volume 6

Дистанцията между нас

A Century Of Poetry Review

In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

Creative Writing in Health and Social Care

En busca de Mary Shelley : la joven que escribió Frankenstein

Mary Shelley Horror Stories

The Distance Between Us

A la Recherche 2006/2007 (Poetry Review)

Poetry Review Spring 2012: v. 102 No. 1: The Poetry of Place