Esther Morgan received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors in 1998. Her first poetry collection, Beyond Calling Distance, was published by Bloodaxe in 2001. It won the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival First Collection Prize and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize. She edited the first four editions of the annual poetry anthology Reactions (Pen & Inc Press), and has also taught extensively on undergraduate and continuing education creative writing programmes at the University of East Anglia. She is currently working on a second collection.