Antony Dunn was born in London in 1973. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1995 and received an Eric Gregory Award in 2000. He has published two collections of poems, Pilots and Navigators (OxfordPoets,1998) and Flying Fish (OxfordPoets / Carcanet, 2002). He has worked on a number of translation projects with poets from Holland, Hungary, China and Israel, and was Poet in Residence at the University of York for 2006. He also writes for the theatre and his plays include Dog Blue, Gooose Chase and Sheherds' Delight.