Since receiving an Eric Gregory award in 1981, Philip Gross has taught creative writing from schools to universities and published 27 collections, for adults and for young people; his latest, The Thirteenth Angel (Bloodaxe, 2022) was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He won the T.S. Eliot in 2009, a Cholmondeley Award in 2017, and thrives on collaboration, e.g. with poet Lesley Saunders on A Part of the Main (Mulfran, 2018), with scientists on the young people’s collection Dark Sky Park (Otter-Barry, 2018) and with artist Valerie Coffin Price and Welsh-language bardd Cyril Jones on Troeon/Turnings (Seren, 2021). With roots in Cornwall and Estonia, he now lives in South Wales.