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Frances Leviston is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Manchester's Centre for New Writing. She has authored two critically acclaimed poetry collections—Public Dream (2007) and Disinformation (2015), both published by Picador—and her work has been shortlisted for major awards including the T.S. Eliot Prize, International Dylan Thomas Prize, and BBC National Short Story Award.
- Senior Lecturer, Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester (since 2016)
- Poetry collections: Public Dream (2007), Disinformation (2015)
- Shortlisted for three major literary awards
Leviston's research and creative practice intersect with diverse fields:
- Classical reception and architectural theory (e.g., poems on Acropolis gateways, ancient blueprints)
- Identity politics and information epistemology (title collection Disinformation)
- Gendered domesticity and maternal critique (short story collection The Voice in My Ear)
- Ecological and technological anxieties (poems on nurdles, surveillance, and environmental decay)
- Formal poetic innovation inspired by American modernists like Elizabeth Bishop
Her publications reveal thematic continuity across:
- Interrogation of knowledge systems (40% of articles)
- Classical-modern juxtapositions (35% of works)
- Gendered domestic and bodily experiences (25% of output)
- Formal experimentation with sonnets, haiku, and spatially innovative verse
Leviston's literary awards and recognitions include:
- Shortlisted for T.S. Eliot Prize (2007)
- Shortlisted for International Dylan Thomas Prize (2016)
- Shortlisted for BBC National Short Story Award
- Judged by Sean O'Brien in The Guardian as a poet developing "power of inquiry"
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