Hilary Watson

Hilary Watson lives in Cardiff and grew up in South Wales. She graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA and MA in Writing. She was a Jerwood/Arvon mentee with mentor Caroline Bird. Her poetry has been published widely in magazines across the UK and internationally, and she has placed in a number of poetry prizes including being shortlisted for Live Canon, Verve and the Troubador Poetry Prize. She is one of the founding editors at the thrutopian writing magazine Bending The Arc. Her collaborative thrutopian poetry pamphlet, with poets Ilse Pedler and Alice Willitts, We’ll Meet You There was published by Dialect Press March 2026. Her debut collection Menagerie Street was published in 2026.