I'm a writer and performer of my own work. Since winning the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award in 2006 and 2007, I've been invited to read at a variety of venues, including a set at the Ledbury Festival. In 2009 my first pamphlet, your own devices, was published by tall-lighthouse press, and a selection of my work appeared in 2011′s The Salt Book of Younger Poets. My plays have been staged in Oxford and Edinburgh, and I'm currently working on a sitcom and a novel.

After studying English and French at university, I worked in Nantes, France, as a radio presenter for a cultural show called English for Everyone. I'm also a guest blogger for the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/richard-obrien/

If you're not sure what I'm listening to, it's probably Jake Thackray, or Momus. If you're not sure what I'm watching, it's probably Louie.