Mike Edwards is a writer, workshop facilitator and performance poet from Teesside. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Northumbria University and is a previous winner of a Northern Writers Award. He has performed at spoken word events and festivals across the UK and has written and performed one-man shows, including The Rise and Fall of the Poetry Bandits (performed on Radio 4s The Verb) and Damn Seagulls (toured nationally). His debut novel, Darkwater, is inspired by the landscape and folklore of his native north east.
