Long biographical note
Tom Chivers was born in South London in 1983 and educated at St Anne’s College, Oxford where he studied Medieval English Literature. A writer, editor and promoter, he is currently Director of live literature organisation Penned in the Margins, Co-Director of London Word Festival and Associate Editor of international journal Tears in the Fence. He has been a presenter on Resonance FM and in 2008 was the first ever Poet in Residence at The Bishopsgate Institute, London. He is a winner of the Crashaw Prize 2008.
Tom’s poetry has been published widely in magazines such as Stride, The London Magazine, Gists & Piths, The Wolf, The Edgeless Shape, Charm Offensive and Fire, has been included in the anthologies Babylon Burning: 9/11 Five Years On (Nthposition, 2006) and automatic-lighthouse (Tall Lighthouse, 2006), and has been translated into Serbian. He has performed at a number of literary venues and festivals including Poetry International at The Poetry Library, Hackney Literature Festival, The Whitechapel Gallery, The Battle of Ideas and Essex Poetry Festival, and appeared on BBC London, LBC, BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. A sequence of poems, The Terrors, was published as a limited edition chapbook by Nine Arches Press in March 2009.
Tom’s reviews and essays have appeared in Arts Professional, Culture Wars, Poetry London, Poetry News, Smoke and Tears in the Fence. He is the editor of Generation Txt (Penned in the Margins, 2006) and City State: The New London Poetry (Penned in the Margins, 2009). How To Build A City is his first full collection.
He lives, works and plays in East London.
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