Kaddy Benyon was born in Cambridge and grew up in Suffolk. She started her career as a television scriptwriter and wrote over seventy episodes of Hollyoaks and Grange Hill. Kaddy was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize and went on to win the Crashaw Prize with her debut collection, Milk Fever (Salt, 2012). Kaddy is a Granta New Poet, and was Invited Poet at The Polar Museum in Cambridge where she collaborated with costume designer Lindsey Holmes on a text and textiles exhibition, The Snow Queen Retold. Kaddy had a short residency with The Bothy Project on the Scottish island of Eigg where she wrote poems toward her second collection, The Tidal Wife (Salt, 2018). Kaddy made research trips to Denmark, Finland, and Finnish Lapland while researching her third collection, Robbergirls (Salt, 2023), a sapphic retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen. Kaddy regularly critiques for other writers, and works as a specialist mentor to students with disabilities at the University of Cambridge.

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