Our resident poet in 2022 is Maria Sledmere. She is a poet, critic and artist based in Glasgow, where she also teaches. Currently, she is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde, and Tutor at the University of Glasgow, Scottish Universities International Summer School and Beyond Form Creative Writing. She holds a DFA from the University of Glasgow on hypercritique and creative-critical approaches to lyric, the everyday and the anthropocene. She is editor-in-chief of SPAM Press and a member of the art and ecology collective, A+E. Having worked with musicians and artists including Lanark Artefax, Zoee and North Sea Dialect, she practices collaboratively and across media, theory and poetics. An exhibition with Katie O’Grady and Jack O’Flynn, The Palace of Humming Trees, was shown at French Street Studios in 2021. With Rhian Williams, she co-edited an anthology, the weird folds: everyday poems from the anthropocene (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2020). Her debut collection, The Luna Erratum, is out now with Dostoyevsky Wannabe following pamphlets such as nature sounds without nature sounds (Sad Press, 2019), neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press, 2020) and Chlorophyllia (OrangeApple Press 2020). Recent publications include Sans Soleil, a collaboration with fred spoliar (Face Press/Mermaid Motel, 2022) and String Feeling (Erotoplasty Editions, 2022). Her second collection, Visions & Feed, is forthcoming from HVTN Press.
Website: http://mariasledmere.com
Blog: http://mariaologyy.wordpress.com
Twitter: @mariaxrose
Instagram: @cherry_melancholic