I’ll be reading this Thursday 16 November, 6.30pm at Golden Hare Books‘ poetry series Hear Hare Here, alongside Jonathan Bay and Rachel Rankin, hosted by Golden Hare’s own poet and bookseller Alice Tarbuck. Tickets are £5, hope to see you there.

Ryan Van Winkle is a poet, editor and live artist living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The Prairie Schooner and The American Poetry Review. As a member of Highlight Arts he has organised festivals and translation workshops in Syria, Pakistan and Iraq. He was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson fellowship in 2012 and a residency at The Studios of Key West in 2016. www.ryanvanwinkle.com

Jonathan Bay, a Creative Writing PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. He has been published in The Inkwell, Hearts and Minds, Gutter and most recently won the Jupiter Artland Inspired to Write competition. He enjoys travelling.

Rachel Rankin is a poet from Coatbridge who currently lives in Edinburgh, where she is a student on the MSc Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. She has had both poetry and book reviews published in a variety of journals , including Gutter, Antiphon, The Riveter and on the Scottish Review of Books’ website following her participation in their inaugural Emerging Critics Mentoring Programme. Rachel was shortlisted for the annual Jane Martin Poetry Prize organised by Girton College at the University of Cambridge in 2017 and is a recipient of a Dewar Arts Award, which is being used to fund her postgraduate studies. As well as this, Rachel has performed her work and competed in competitions both nationally and internationally. You can find her on Twitter at @rakelrank.