Kaddy Benyon was born in Cambridge and grew up in Suffolk. She began her writing life as a television scriptwriter and wrote over seventy episodes of Hollyoaks and Grange Hill, as well as three tie-in novels. During her MA in Creative Writing, Kaddy was shortlisted for the inaugural Picador Poetry Prize and won the Crashaw Prize with her debut collection, Milk Fever (Salt, 2012). Kaddy is a Granta New Poet, and was Invited Poet at The Polar Museum in Cambridge for eighteen months where she collaborated with costume designer Lindsey Holmes on the text and textiles exhibition, The Snow Queen Retold. Kaddy held a residency with The Bothy Project on the Scottish island of Eigg where she wrote poems toward her second collection, The Tidal Wife (Salt, 2018). She also made research trips to Denmark, Finland, and Finnish Lapland while researching her third collection, Robbergirls (Salt, 2023), a sapphic retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale The Snow Queen. Kaddy regularly critiques for other writers, and she works as a specialist mentor to students with disabilities at the University of Cambridge.

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Kaddy is represented by Rosie Pierce at Curtis Brown.

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