Notes on Authors

153 154 Theis Anderson read English at the University of Cambridge and is currently studying an MA in Creative and Life Writing in London. Tey were a Foyle Young Poet and winner of the Christopher Tower and Adroit poetry competitions. More recently, Teis’s work has featured in Menacing Hedge, Poetry London and PROTOTYPE’s inaugural anthology. | Spencer Thomas Campbell is a fction writer and playwright based in Brooklyn, New York. Recent theatrical productions include Chroma Key (Te Brick: 2016), Immortality is Ad-Supported (!? New Works Festival: 2015), and Every Time I Turn Around (Exponential Festival: 2014, Silent Barn: 2013). His fction has previously appeared in Te Cambridge Literary Review, as well as 99ways and Tis Recording. His new play, Emphasis Mine, is set to be staged by Title:Point Productions in 2020. | Vahni Capildeo’s seven books include Venus as a Bear (Carcanet, 2018), which explores the ‘it-ness’ of art objects, the natural world, and language itself, and the immersive theatre of Skin Can Hold (Carcanet, 2019), both completed while a Douglas Caster Cultural Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds. Odyssey Calling, a pamphlet written partly during a stormy night on Lindisfarne, will be published by Sad Press in 2019. | Patrick Coyle is an artist working with performance, writing and sculpture. His “Bottling Station” project (2014 - present) is a series of semi-improvised guided tours of imagined future water-bottling plants incorporating found and constructed sculptures. Coyle recently delivered performances and displayed work at Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Recent Activity, Birmingham; Ty Pawb, Wrexham; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; ANDOR Gallery, London; Global Committee, New York; El Tercer Lugar, Buenos Aires; Catalyst Arts, Belfast; Van Alen Institute, New York; and Tate Modern, London. | Emily Critchley is the author of twelve poetry collections, including Arrangements (Shearsman, 2018) and Ten Tousand Tings (Boiler House Press, 2017). She is Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich and lives in London with her daughter. Her most recent manuscript, Home, is forthcoming with Prototype. | Raymond Crump lives in retirement in South London. An author of small poems, he dreams of penning an ode of greater moment. Chords: New and Selected Poems, with an afterword by Peter Riley, was published in December 2019 by SSEA / Face Press. | Raymond Geuss is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Cambridge. His Who needs a world view? will appear with Harvard University Press in May 2020. | Harry Josephine Giles is from Orkney and lives in Leith. Teir latest book is Te Games from Out-Spoken Press, shortlisted for the 2016 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Tey are studying for a PhD at Stirling, co-direct the performance platform Anatomy, and are now touring the poetry-music-video show Drone. www.harryjosephine.

155 com | Peter Gizzi’s recent books include Sky Burial: New & Selected Poems just out from Caracnet, and Archeophonics which was a Finalist for the 2016 National Book Award in the US. | alice hiller holds a PhD from UCL and published Te T-shirt Book with Ebury Press. She has written for magazines including Te Observer supplement and has reviewed for the TLS, FT, Poetry Review, and Poetry London amongst others. She is the Reviews Editor for harana poetry and interviews poets about ‘saying the difcult thing’ on her Wordpress blog. Deriving from her own experience, her current poems work to change awareness around sexual abuse in childhood and document the long shadows it casts. | Beau Hopkins was born in 1982 and grew up in Oxfordshire. His debut pamphlet, Figment Music, was published by Gatehouse Press in 2017. Tricing, his experimental translation of César Vallejo’s landmark 1922 collection Trilce, will be published by Boiler House Press in 2020. He lives in Norfolk and works as a law reporter. | Harvey James is a medical student based in the south of Italy. His poetry has previously appeared in Popshot Magazine. ‘Saturday’ is his debut short story. | Lefteris Kefalas was born in 1991 in Patras, Greece. He graduated from the Department of Teatre at the University of Patras in July 2014 and shortly afterwards took an MA in Modern Greek Language and Literature at the Patras Department of Philology. He is currently a PhD candidate at King’s College London (Byzantine and Modern Greek Research, Department of Classics). His thesis, titled Renos Apostolidis and Post-war Literary Critique, centres on the life of the Greek man of letters Renos Apostolidis and aims to ofer a critical evaluation of his literary and journalistic work. | THE BEARMAIDEN (Jesi Kelley) is a second-generation artist who grew up in Paris, Kingston, and Harlem. Running from her artistic heritage, she hid in the corporate world working in advertising sales, new business development and technology for close to twenty years. She was an IT support manager at a hedge fund when the tragedy of 9/11 persuaded her to return “home” to pursue the family business of creating art. A graduate of Pratt Institute, Te BearMaiden has worked as an independent graphic designer and photographer for over ten years. In addition to her own interpretive photography that focuses on her joy, she shoots high school sports for the New York City Public Schools Athletic League. Most recently she illustrated a series of 5 book jackets that will appear on the reissues the work of her father, the writer William Melvin Kelley. AIKI (Karen Kelley), a Chicago-born poet and visual artist, has worked steadily at her art since graduating from New York’s Sarah Lawrence College in 1962 with a focus on painting. While at Sarah Lawrence, Aiki had the great privilege and life-changing experience of studying Folklore and Mythology under Joseph Campbell. Aiki has lived for extensive periods in Rome, Paris and Kingston, Jamaica. Married for over 55 years to the late writer

156 William Melvin Kelley, Aiki has two daughters, the photographer and graphic designer, Jesi Kelley (Te BearMaiden), and Cira Kelley, an educator and educational theorist. Most recently Aiki was part of collaborative exhibit ‘Fire/Water Earth/Sky’ with her daughter Jesi in New York City. Aiki has just completed a poetic narrative Too Stubborn To Leave, Too Lazy to Quit; A Ballad about her marriage. | William Melvin Kelley was a novelist, short fction writer, and educator. Born in 1937, he attended Fieldston School and Harvard University. He taught literature and writing at the New School for Social Research, the State University of New York at Geneseo, the University of Paris, Nanterre, and Sarah Lawrence College. Kelley published four novels; A Diferent Drummer, A Drop of Patience, Dem, and Dunfords Travels Everywheres. and a book of short stories; Dancers On Te Shore. A ffth novel, Dis//Integration, awaits posthumous publication. His short stories and essays have appeared in Te Saturday Evening Post, Te New Yorker, Playboy and Harper’s Magazine, and numerous textbooks and anthologies of African American Writers. He was the recipient of the Dana Reed Literary prize; Bread Loaf Writers Conference grant; Whitney Foundation award; Rosenthal Foundation award; Transatlantic Review award, ; Black Academy of Arts and Letters award; and the Anisfeld-Wolf Book Award for Lifetime Achievement. He died on February 1 , 2017. Dunfords Travels Everywheres will be republished by Anchor Vintage in autumn 2020. Of Kelley’s other works: in the US Dem, A Drop of Patience and Dancers on the Shore will be also be published by Anchor Vintage during 2020; in the UK Dancers On Te Shore will be published by riverrun in autumn 2020, and A Diferent Drummer and A Drop of Patience are currently in print. | Michael Kindellan is a Canadian-born poet and scholar. He lives in Berlin with partner Julia and their daughters Greta and Agnes. | Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, and essayist. Her frst book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was a fnalist for the 2018 People's Choice T&T Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Shivanee was shortlisted for the 2018 Bridport Prize for Poetry. “Te Red Tread Cycle”, from her debut collection, won a Small Axe Literary Competition Prize for Poetry (second-place), and was on audiovisual display at the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas in 2019. | David Sington is a flm director and producer, and occasional author, based in London. He was married to Pamela Neville-Sington for almost thirty years. | Rhys Trimble is a bilingual poet, text artist, performer, musician, editor, critic, collaborator, comedian, shaman, staf-wielder and based in Wales. | G.C. Waldrep’s most recent books are feast gently (Tupelo, 2018), winner of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and the long poem Testament (BOA Editions, 2015). Other recent work has appeared in

157 American Poetry Review, Poetry, Paris Review, PN Review, etc. His new collection, Te Earliest Witnesses, will be released in November 2020 by Tupelo in the USA and Carcanet in the UK. Waldrep lives in Lewisburg, Pa., where he teaches at Bucknell University and edits the journal West Branch. | CDN Warren is a self-taught multi-media artist / designer and writer whose work seeks to explore the potential of language, text and typography; especially that created using ‘obsolete’ technologies such as the typewriter and dry-transfer lettering. He has been widely exhibited and published internationally, as a solo artist and in collaboration, and has works held in permanent collections in Finland, the UK and China. His latest collection, Shade Studies, has been published through Timglaset Editions, Malmö, Sweden. | Lydia Wilson is an editor of the Cambridge Literary Review. She is presenting a forthcoming TV show on the history of writing for BBC4, which the essay in this issue draws upon, and researches violent extremism, mostly in the Middle East, with afliations to the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and City University New York. | Alison Honey Woods is a visual artist, photographer and flmmaker. She lives in Toronto with her husband Chris, children Oliver and Poppy, and their dog, Wolfy.

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