Isobel Dixon

Isobel Dixon (born 1969) is a South African poet.

Life
Dixon was born in Umtata, South Africa, and raised in the Karoo region of that country.

She lives in Cambridge, and works in London as a literary agent. She has published several anthologies. She was commissioned to write poems by the British Film Institute in 2007.

Her work has appeared in Leviathan Quarterly, Wasafiri, The Guardian, London Magazine, and the Paris Review, and in the anthologies New Writing 8 (Vintage, 1999), New Writing 10 (Vintage, 2001), and New Writing 11 (Picador, 2002).

Recognition
In 2000 she won the South African Sanlam Award for Poetry for Weather Eye. In 2005 she won the Olive Schreiner Prize.

Publications

 * The Prems Adventures (1999)
 * Weather eye (2001)
 * A fold in the map (2007)