Philip Terry was born in Belfast and has taught at the universities of Caen, Plymouth, and Essex, where he is currently Director of the Centre for Creative Writing. His books include the anthology of short stories Ovid Metamorphosed (2000), the poetry collections Oulipoems (2006), Oulipoems 2 (2009) and Shakespeare’s Sonnets (2010), and the novel tapestry (2013), which was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. He is the translator of Raymond Queneau’s Elementary Morality (2007), and Georges Perec’s I Remember (2014). Dante’s Inferno, which relocates Dante’s poem to present-day Essex, was published in 2014 and was an Independent poetry title of the year.
