Funded by Arts Council England, Faber New Poets aims to identify and support emerging talents at an early stage in their careers. Through a programme of mentorship, bursary and pamphlet publication, the scheme offers four poets a year the time, guidance and encouragement they require to help in the development of their work in the longer term. Rachel Curzon was born in Leeds in 1978. She studied English at Oxford, trained to be a teacher in London, and now teaches in a boys' school in Hampshire. She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and was a runner-up in the Bridport Prize in the same year. Her poems have appeared in the Rialto, Poetry London and Magma. She lives in Andover.