Abi Curtis is Professor of Creative Writing at York St John University. She has won an Eric Gregory Award and Somerset Maugham Award for her poetry collections, The Glass Delusion (Salt, 2013) and Unexpected Weather (Salt, 2009). Her first novel, Water & Glass (Cloud Lodge 2017) is a speculative, climate-change story. She has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing and is inspired by art, psychology, science and the environment. She has been placed in the Bridport Prize, Fish Prize and Alpine Prize for her short fiction. She has written on such subjects as maternal speculative fiction,  mushrooms in Freud, squid in literature, and the creative possibilities of pollination, and often collaborates with artists and musicians. She edited Blood & Cord: Writers on Early Parenthood (Emma Press, 2023) Her most recent novel, The Headland (2024), is published by feminist science fiction press, Gold SF.

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