Oli Hazzard was born in Bristol in 1986. He is the author of two collections of poems: Between Two Windows(Carcanet, 2012), which received the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize and an Eric Gregory Award, and was a book of the year in the Guardian, TLS, and Financial Times; and Blotter (Carcanet, 2018). He has also written a book of literary criticism, John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras (Oxford University Press, 2018). His poems, criticism and fiction have appeared in publications including Harper's, The White Review, Boston Review, Frieze, Music & Literature, The Times Literary Supplement, and the Guardian. He lives in Edinburgh and teaches at the University of St Andrews.