Alison Binney

Alison Binney is a poet and English teacher from Cambridge. She has taught in state secondary schools for 28 years, and also teaches on the PGCE English course at the University of Cambridge. Her debut poetry pamphlet, Other Women’s Kitchens, won the Mslexia Pamphlet Competition and was published by Seren Books in 2021. Her poems have been widely published, online and in print, in journals such as The North, The Rialto, Butcher’s Dog, Magma, Strix, Spelt, Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Interpreter’s House, Gutter, Under the Radar and The Fenland Poetry Journal. Her poems have been Highly Commended in the Ginkgo Prize for Ecopoetry, the Bridport Prize and the Rialto Nature and Place Competition. She founded the Cambridge branch of the National Writing Project, which brings together teachers as writers. A keen hillwalker, she has very slowly acquired a taste for the Fens.