Dr. Rhiannon Hooson has won major awards for her work, including an Eric Gregory award from the Society of Authors, and performed at literature festivals and venues across the UK, including London, York and the Hay festival, where she was one of the Hay Writers at Work in 2019. Her work has been featured in the Guardian, and her first full length collection, The Other City, was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year award. In 2018 she became the poetry editor for Creative Countryside magazine, and is one of the 2019 Literature Wales Bursary recipients, and the judge of the PENfro Festival poetry competition 2019.