ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Graham Mort is a poet and short story writer who has also written for BBC radio. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Transcultural Literature at Lancaster University and has worked across sub-Saharan Africa and in Kurdistan on literature development projects. Graham’s new and selected poems, Visibility, were published by Seren in 2007, followed by a new book of poems, Cusp, in 2011. His first book of short stories, Touch, was published by Seren in 2010 and contained the Bridport Prize-winning short story, ‘The Prince’. Touch went on to win the Edge Hill prize for the best UK collection of short fiction in 2011. The stories in this new collection, Terroir, were written over a five-year period, including during a writing fellowship at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, in 2014. A number of them have been published in literary journals, whilst ‘The Glover’ won the Short Fiction International Short Story Prize in 2014. In the same year, some stories from Touch were translated into Vietnamese by the writer Nguyen Phan Que Mai and appeared in the magazine Tuoi Tre. Graham is currently working on a new book of poems.