Michael Curtis grew up in Liverpool, attended Oxford and Sheffield universities, worked in library and cultural services and events management including international poetry tours, and now lives in Kent. He has given readings, workshops and residencies in England, Ireland, the Isle of Man and elsewhere in Europe. His work has been studied and translated at universities in Liege, Bucharest and Munich and broadcast on radio in England, Ireland, Latvia and Romania. The much-admired The Fire in Me Now (Cultured Llama) was published in 2014, the moving pamphlet sequence Lullaby Days (Indigo Dreams) appeared in 2015, and the bi-lingual pamphlet True Compass? (Integral Press) in 2017.