Hilary Watson grew up in and around Cardiff. She's a double graduate of the University of Warwick Writers’ Programme and was a Jerwood/Arvon Mentee 2015/16 with mentor Caroline Bird.

She has been shortlisted for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize and the Live Canon Prize, and recently been published in The Butcher's Dog, Interpreter's House, Impossible Archetype as well as other UK magazines.

She works in the Welsh third sector and is currently writing her first collection.