Autor: Chrissy Williams

Chrissy Williams is a poet, editor and tutor living in London. She has published a number of pamphlets, including Flying into the Bear (Happen Stance Press, 2013) which was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Awards, Epigraphs (if p then q, 2014) which was featured on BBC Radio 3’s The Verb, and Angela (Sidekick Books, 2013) which fuses Murder, She Wrote with Twin Peaks. Her first book-length collection, Bear, was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2017. She has worked in books, magazines, at the Poetry Library at Southbank Centre, and as a Visiting Lecturer in Creative Writing. She is director of the annual Free Verse: Poetry Book Fair and founded the world’s first bespoke edible poetry journal Poetry Digest. She also edited the UK’s first book on poetry comics, Over the Line: An Introduction to Poetry Comics (Sidekick Books, 2015) and currently works as a comics editor. She is half-Italian and she likes bears.