Michael McKimm


Michael McKimm was born in Belfast and grew up near the Giant’s Causeway. A graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, he won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and was an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa in 2010. He is the author of Still This Need (Heaventree Press, 2009) and Fossil Sunshine (Worple Press, 2013) and has edited two anthologies: MAP: Poems after William Smith’s Geological Map of 1815 (Worple Press, 2015) and The Tree Line: Poems for Trees, Woods & People (Worple Press, 2017). www.michaelmckimm.co.uk (photo by Andrew Mason)