About the Author

Tom Phillips is a poet, playwright and translator now living in Sofia, Bulgaria. His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, as well as in the full-length collections Unknown Translations (Scalino, 2016), Recreation Ground (Two Rivers Press, 2012) and Burning Omaha (Firewater, 2003). It also features on Colourful Star, the online art/poetry project he runs with the artist Marina Shiderova, and has been translated into Albanian, Bulgarian, Italian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian and Spanish. Tom has participated in a number of international literary festivals, including World Poetry Day in Romania, the Aca Karamanov poetry weekend in Macedonia and Sofia Poetics, as well as an Sofia's Poetry on the Metro project. A former translator-in-residence at the Sofia Literature and Translation House, he has translated work by many of Bulgaria's leading contemporary poets. Tom's other work includes the plays No Time For Hope (Bristol, 2017), Coastal Defences (Bristol, 2014) and 100 Miles North of Timbuktu (Bristol, 2013), as well as essays and travel writing about SE Europe.