Todd Swift was born in Montreal and moved to Britain in 2003. He has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. He has published six collections of poetry, including Seaway: New and Selected Poems (2008) and has edited special sections on Canadian poetry for New American Writing, London Magazine and Jacket. He is co-editor, with Jason Camlot, of Language Acts: Anglo-Quebec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century. He has been Oxfam GB Poet-in-residence since 2004. He is Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Kingston University.