Hilary Davies is an English poet, translator, critic and teacher. She taught for 30 years at St Paul's Girls' School, London, where she was head of modern languages for 19 years until her retirement in 2011. She won an Eric Gregory award in 1983, has been a Hawthornden Fellow, and was Chair of the Poetry Society from 1992-93. More recently, she has been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King's College, London, and at The British Library. She has published four collections with Enitharmon, the most recent being Exile and the Kingdom (2016).