Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, critic, and educator from Bristol now living in Edinburgh. Her books include Corpses (Sublunary Editions), Notes from the Underworld (SE), Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid (Hesterglock), One by One (No Press), Poets (The Red Ceilings), Strangers Wave (zimZalla), The Continued Closure of the Blue Door (HVTN) and Cassette Poems, (above/ground press). Her most recent publication is Some Deer (Broken Sleep Books) and her next full-length collection, Nervous Tic, is forthcoming. She co-edits Firmament online and Surreal-Absurd at Mercurius. Vik has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal from the University of Birmingham.