Isobel Dixon

Isobel Dixon grew up in South Africa, where her debut, Weather Eye, won the Olive Schreiner Prize. In the UK, Nine Arches Press published A Fold in the Map, The Tempest Prognosticator and Bearings, and her most recent collection, A Whistling of Birds, including Douglas Robertson’s nature illustrations. Her poems have appeared in publications like Prairie Schooner, Paris Review, New Statesman and The Dark Horse and in anthologies including Penguin’s Poems for Love and The New Century of South African Poetry. She lives in Cambridge, England, and returns when she can to her family home in South Africa’s Karoo region.