Paul Stubbs was born in Norwich and now lives in Paris. He left school at sixteen and worked in various jobs around the country before beginning to write. His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines, and in 2005, he received two awards for his writing from the Society of Authors and the Arts Council of England. His debut collection, The Theological Museum appeared in 2005, and second, The Icon Maker, in 2008. He has read at various places, including the Seamus Heaney Centre in Belfast, the King's Lynn Festival and in New York. In 2002 he was one of 37 British poets commissioned by the Globe Theatre in London to write a poem commemorating the bicentenary of Wordsworth's sonnet 'On Westminster Bridge'.