Vicki Feaver moved to Dunsyre, South Lanarkshire in 2000. She previously taught creative writing at the University of Chichester where she is now Emeritus Professor. She has published three collections of poetry, Close Relatives (Secker 1981), and The Handless Maiden (Cape 1994) and The Book of Blood (Cape 2006), both short-listed for the Forward Prize Best Collection, with The Book of Blood also shortlisted for the 2006 Costa (formerly Whitbread) Poetry Book Award. Her poem ‘Judith’ won the Forward Prize for the Best Single Poem. She has also received a Heineman Prize, a Hawthornden Fellowship, an Arts Council Award and a Cholmondeley Award.