Vik Shirley is a poet and writer from Bristol now living in Edinburgh. Her books include Corpses (Sublunary Editions) and The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN). She has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry from the University of Birmingham. Vik co-edits Surreal-Absurd for Mercurius and Firmament online for Sublunary Editions. Her work has appeared in such places as Poetry London, PN Review, and Dreaming Awake: New and Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom (MadHat).