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KIRSTEN NORRIE
Dr. Kirsten Norrie is a writer, musician and artist. The author of four critically-acclaimed poetry collections, she is published by Bloodaxe in the UK and Red Hen in the US. Norrie has also researched and written a Creative Scotland funded non-fiction book, Scottish Lost Boys and two novels An American Book of the Dead and The Wind of Voices, published by Broken Sleep Books. She has worked with French film company Brio Films on the script for forthcoming movie Mallorca, based on the life of Chopin and Georges Sand, and scored three soundtracks, also appearing in films by British director Andrew Kötting with Alan Moore and Toby Jones. She has written and reviewed for Performance Research and Art Monthly In 2020 she received a Paul Hamlyn Composer Award for her work in music. Her work has appeared in Magma, the Poetry Review and on BBC. She has tutored for the Poetry School, London; for OSAP/New College, Oxford and has taught at the Universities of Oxford, Cheltenham & Gloucester, the Royal College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art and Arvon. She has a BFA and MFA from The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University and an AHRC funded DPhil from Wolfson College, Oxford University. She is represented by Nemonie Craven, co-director of Jonathan Clowes Literary Agency, London.
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LUKE ALLAN
Luke Allan has worked as Managing Editor at Carcanet Press and Deputy Editor of PN Review. He is editor at the poetry press Sine Wave Peak, and co-founded the journals Butcher's Dog, Pain, and Quait. He studied literature and creative writing at UEA and Oxford. His minimum soft exchange is published by Miel (2016). A selection of recent work is published in New Poetries VII (2018). He is a tutor for the Poetry School, London.
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JENNY MCAULEY
Dr. Jenny McAuley is a writer and academic currently resident in Oxford. Since receiving her doctorate in English Studies from the University of Durham, she has held postdoctoral research associateships, and taught English literature of all periods from the Renaissance to the contemporary, at Durham, at the University of Oxford and Queen Mary University of London.
TUTOR & EDITOR
ALEXIS THOMPSON
Alexis Thompson is a writer based in Oxford. He has led poetry walks in London on the Modernists for the International Times and New River Press, curated and read in London and Edinburgh. In 2020, he graduated from Kellogg College, Oxford University, with an MSt (Merit) in Creative Writing. He has published in MONK and the New River Press. Editor of the Blackwell's Poetry series, he also edits the OSP Review and having completed a first novel, is now working on crime fiction for Ellery Queen and a poetry collection. He curated The Woodstock Poetry Festival in 2023.