Victoria Bennett

Victoria Bennett is a disabled and chronically-ill poet, author, carer and home-educating mother. Her debut memoir, ‘All My Wild Mothers: motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden’, was published by John Murray Press in 2023. Blending lyrical memoir with nature writing and old apothecary knowledge, it has received the International Nautilus Silver Award for Memoir, the Northern Debut Award, the Mother’s Milk Non-Fiction Prize, was shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2024, and long-listed for the Nan Shepherd Prize.

She has published 5 pamphlets of poetry, appeared in several anthologies, and shared her writing in many places, from a forest in Kentucky to Glastonbury Festival, and even in the game of Minecraft. Her writing spans poetry, memoir, non-fiction and games-based storytelling, and she has written and talked extensively on grief, care, and writing through times of change.

She lives in Orkney, with her husband and son. When not juggling writing, full-time care, and genetic illness, she can be found where the wild weeds grow, growing her apothecary garden.