Ian Seed teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chester. He has lived and worked in different countries, including Italy, France and Poland. His poetry, prose poetry, fiction, reviews and translations have appeared in such journals as Blackbox Manifold, Free Verse, Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine, The North, PN Review, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Wales, Shearsman, Stride
and Tears in the Fence.
Seed’s first full-length collection, Anonymous Intruder
, was published by Shearsman in 2009. Shearsman have also published his collections Shifting Registers
(2011) and Makers of Empty Dreams
(2014).
Chapbooks include Sleeping with the Ice Cream Vendor
(Knives, Forks and Spoons Press, 2012), Threadbare Fables
(Like This Press, 2012) and Amore Mio
(Flax, 2011). Oystercatcher Press published Seed’s translations from the Italian of Ivano Fermini as the straw which comes apart
in 2010.