Gregory Woods Editor & Author

Gregory Woods was born in Egypt in 1953 and grew up in the newly independent Ghana. He was studied English and American literature at the University of East Anglia, where he undertook Angus Wilson and Malcolm Bradbury's first undergraduate course in creative writing in 1973. He is currently Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies at Nottingham Trent University and is the author of several critical books, including A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998) and This Is No Book: A Gay Reader (1994). He has published three previous poetry collections: We Have the Melon (1992), May I Say Nothing (1998) and The District Commissioner's Dreams (2002).