Fiona Perry was born and brought up in Northern Ireland but has lived in England, Australia, and New Zealand. A graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, and Lancaster University, she worked previously as an environmentalist in a unitary authority. She currently works in learning support and lives with her family near Oxford.
Publications and Achievements
Fiona’s work has been widely published and gained recognition in several poetry awards:
- Her first collection of poetry, Alchemy (Turas Press, 2020), won the Poetry Book Awards (2021) Silver Medal and was shortlisted for the Rubery Prize.
- Her poem Fusion was longlisted for the Fish Publishing prize
- An animal within an animal received a special mention in the Welsh Poetry Prize
Fiona is also a writer of short fiction: Sea Change, a flash fiction piece, won first prize in the Bath Flash Fiction Awards (2020).
Her literary work features in many print journals including Lighthouse, The Alchemy Spoon, Skylight47 and Into The Void. Her poems also appear online in Ink, Sweat & Tears, The Blue Nib, Utopia and Star*Line (the flagship journal of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Association of America).
Fiona has also contributed several poems to the Poetry Worth Hearing podcast.
Reviews and Reception
Fiona’s work has been highly praised by reviewers and feature writers.
In his review of Alchemy, Nigel Kent observes that
“Alchemy is a truly impressive, sometimes challenging work by a hugely-talented writer with a distinctive voice and vision.”
To access the full text of this and other commentaries on Alchemy, head over to our Reviews page.
Fiona has written several articles for literary journals reflecting on her journey towards becoming a writer of fiction and poetry, which can be accessed on our Articles and Interviews page.