[2] She received her Master of Letters and PhD in English from University of St Andrews, Scotland, where she wrote her dissertation on the Ophelia figure in early modern drama.
[3] She lives in Thorverton, Devon with her husband James Meredith and their daughters Isla and Rose.
Her work was included in Faber New Poets (2009) and her debut collection, Bright Travellers was published in 2014 by Cape Poetry.
[5] Benson was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize for her poetry collections, Bright Travellers (2014), Vertigo and Ghost (2019), and Ephemeron (2022).
[6] Ben Wilkinson, in a review of Bright Travellers for The Guardian, describes Benson as "a poet whose dark imagination mixes solemnity with lyricism, treating the poem as a kind of secular prayer.