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Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984. He lives in Cambridge, where he completed a PhD in English at Girton College in 2010; he works as a library assistant, book reviewer and teacher. Tom Docherty was born in Glasgow in 1989 and brought up in Hamilton. He studied for undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Glasgow before receiving an MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge. He has now started work there towards a doctorate, which is currently about the poetry of Geoffrey Hill. Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes’ first collection, Gathering Evidence, was published by Carcanet in 2014. Poems from the collection won the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award and other prizes. She recently moved from New Zealand (where she completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington) to the Netherlands, where she teaches at Maastricht University. She is currently writing her second poetry collection and a novel. J. Kates lives in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire. Eric Langley is a lecturer in Shakespeare at University College London. In 2009, he published a book on suicide and narcissism in Shakespeare with Oxford University Press, and is currently writing on Renaissance notions of disease transmission and sympathy. His poetry has appeared in PN Review, and he previously worked on the editorial team of Stand magazine. Nyla Matuk was born in Winnipeg in 1967 and now lives in Toronto. She holds an MA in English from McGill University and her first poetry collection, Sumptuary Laws, was published with Véhicule Press in 2012. She was shortlisted for the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award, and her poems have appeared in PN Review, Hazlitt, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, The Literary Review of Canada, the Best American Poetry blog, and in several other journals and magazines. Duncan Montgomery was born in the north-east of England in 1991. He read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he is now a graduate student with interests in print culture and historical writing in early modern England. He is especially interested in book illustration, as he is also a wood-engraver. 270 New Poetries VI

André Naffis-Sahely is a poet, critic and translator. His poetry was most recently featured in Best British Poetry 2014. Recent and forthcoming translations include The Physiology of the Employee by Honoré de Balzac (Wakefield Press, 2014), The Confines of the Shadow, Vol. I by Alessandro Spina (Darf Books, 2015) and Selected Poems by Abdellatif Laâbi (Carcanet Press, 2016). Ben Rogers lives and works in London. He studied English at Cambridge and Cinema & TV Studies at the British Film Institute. His poems have appeared in publications including Magma, 14, Succour and Long Poem Magazine. A pamphlet is forthcoming from Emma Press. Lesley Saunders has published five books of poetry and collaborated with artists, photographers, sculptors, dancers, and a composer and choir. Her most recent collection, The Walls Have Angels, was inspired by a residency at Acton Court, a hauntingly beautiful Tudor house, and its summer visitors in 1535, King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. Claudine Toutoungi’s poetry has appeared in various publications including PN Review and Magma. Her plays Bit Part and Slipping have been produced by the Stephen Joseph Theatre. She adapted Slipping for BBC Radio 4 in 2014. She is currently writing Deliverers, a new play for BBC Radio 4. David Troupes grew up in Massachusetts, though he currently lives in West Yorkshire. He has published two books of poetry with Two Ravens Press, and his comic strip Buttercup Festival appears regularly in PN Review. He is pursuing a PhD at the University of Sheffield on Ted Hughes and Christianity. Molly Vogel is a poet from Thousand Oaks, California. She has been shortlisted for the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her poems have appeared in Fish, Aesthetica, and PN Review. She is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. Rebecca Watts was born in Suffolk in 1983 and now lives in Cambridge, where she works in a library and as a freelance editor. In 2014 she was selected as one of the Poetry Trust’s Aldeburgh Eight. She is working towards her first collection. Author Biographies 271

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Adam Crothers was born in Belfast in 1984. He lives in Cambridge, where he completed a PhD in English at Girton College in 2010; he works as a library assistant, book reviewer and teacher.

Tom Docherty was born in Glasgow in 1989 and brought up in Hamilton. He studied for undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Glasgow before receiving an MPhil in Medieval and Renaissance Literature at the University of Cambridge. He has now started work there towards a doctorate, which is currently about the poetry of Geoffrey Hill.

Irish writer Caoilinn Hughes’ first collection, Gathering Evidence, was published by Carcanet in 2014. Poems from the collection won the 2012 Patrick Kavanagh Award and other prizes. She recently moved from New Zealand (where she completed her PhD at Victoria University of Wellington) to the Netherlands, where she teaches at Maastricht University. She is currently writing her second poetry collection and a novel.

J. Kates lives in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire.

Eric Langley is a lecturer in Shakespeare at University College London. In 2009, he published a book on suicide and narcissism in Shakespeare with Oxford University Press, and is currently writing on Renaissance notions of disease transmission and sympathy. His poetry has appeared in PN Review, and he previously worked on the editorial team of Stand magazine.

Nyla Matuk was born in Winnipeg in 1967 and now lives in Toronto. She holds an MA in English from McGill University and her first poetry collection, Sumptuary Laws, was published with Véhicule Press in 2012. She was shortlisted for the Walrus Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award, and her poems have appeared in PN Review, Hazlitt, Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012, The Walrus, Maisonneuve, The Literary Review of Canada, the Best American Poetry blog, and in several other journals and magazines.

Duncan Montgomery was born in the north-east of England in 1991. He read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he is now a graduate student with interests in print culture and historical writing in early modern England. He is especially interested in book illustration, as he is also a wood-engraver.

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