Paul Stephenson

Paul Stephenson’s first collection Hard Drive was published by Carcanet in 2023. It was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award and Polari Book Prize. He previously published three pamphlets: Those People (Smith/Doorstop, 2015), The Days that Followed Paris (HappenStance, 2016), written after the Paris terrorist attacks, and Selfie with Waterlilies (Paper Swans Press, 2017). He has an MA in Creative Writing with Pedagogy (Poetry) from the Manchester Writing School. He co-edited the ‘Europe’ issue of Magma and helps curate the Poetry in Aldeburgh festival. He lives between Cambridge and Brussels.