Philip Terry was born in Belfast and has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth and Essex, where he is currently Director of Creative Writing. His books include the celebrated anthology of short stories, Ovid Metamorphosed (2000), the poetry collections Oulipoems (2006), Oulipoems 2 (2009) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2011), and the novel tapestry (2013). He is the translator of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality (2007), and Georges Perec’s I Remember (2014).