Lydia Kennaway’s debut poetry pamphlet, 'A History of Walking', was published by HappenStance Press in 2019, when she also he earned an MA in Writing Poetry from Newcastle University. Her work has appeared in fifteen anthologies, and in magazines including The Rialto, Stand, Poetry & Audience, Strix, Ink Sweat & Tears and Under the Radar. She has given readings at the Leeds Lit Fest, the Newcastle Poetry Festival, the Ilkley Literature Festival and Poetry at Aldeburgh.

Lydia won the Flambard Poetry Prize in 2017, and was commended in the 2020/21 Magma Competition. She has been longlisted for the National Poetry Competition four times, and shortlisted for the Live Canon poetry competition (2023), the Live Canon First Collection competition (2022), and The Bridport Prize (2018, 2020).

Lydia is a New Yorker who has lived in Yorkshire for many years.