Tim Dooley is a tutor for The Poetry School in London and a visiting lecturer at the University of Westminster. He was a teacher for many years—a head of department in two comprehensive schools and a senior tutor in a tertiary college. He has also taught poetry at Goldsmiths College and been an arts mentor for the Koestler Trust, as well as a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement and obituary writer for the Times of London . He has been reviews and features editor of Poetry London since 2008 and will complete his term in that role in 2017.