Ian Seed teaches Italian literature and creative writing at Lancaster University. He has also run workshops in a variety of settings, such as schools, colleges, community centres, museums and hospitals. His poetry, fiction, reviews and translations (from French, Italian and Polish) have appeared in such publications as The North, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride and Tears in the Fence. His books and chapbooks include: ‘Sleeping with the Ice Cream Vendor’ (Knives Forks and Spoons, 2012), ‘Threadbare Fables’ (Like This Press, 2012), ‘Shifting Registers’ (Shearsman 2011), ‘Amore mio’ (Flax ebooks, 2011), ‘the straw which comes apart’ ( translations from the poetry of Ivano Fermini, Oystercatcher, 2010), and ‘Anonymous Intruder' (Shearsman, 2009). On the back cover of ‘Shifting Registers’, John Ashbery comments: ‘The mystery and sadness of empty rooms, chance encounters in the street, trains traveling through a landscape of snow become magical in Ian Seed's poems… they strike a complex chord that is completely original’.

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