Mark Lindsey was awarded his MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sheffield and is currently working on his first full collection of experimental, hybrid poetry. His writing uses prose, poetry, poetic essays and collage to explore issues of fiction and truth, politics, history, misogyny, psychology and trauma. His research includes explorations of grief, the importance of the physical and its relation to truth in poetry and non-fiction and use of erasure as a method of exposure in the works of contemporary women poets. His work has been published by “independent, cross-cultural, multi-lingual experimental publisher” Pamenar Press and in print and online editions of the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal Route 57. His first book NEXT TO NOTHING and THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A STORY was published by Beir Bua Press and is a winner of the 2021 Laurence Sterne Prize and was nominated for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for First Full Collection 2023.