Ian Seed Author & Translator

Ian Seed teaches Creative Writing at the University of Chester, and has lectured in Italian language and literature. He is a poet, critic, fiction writer, editor and translator. He has published a number of collections of poetry and prose, including five full-length collections with Shearsman Books, the most recent of which, New York Hotel (2018), was selected by Mark Ford as a TLS Book of the Year. Seed's first full-length collection, Anonymous Intruder, was published by Shearsman in 2009. Shearsman have since published his collections Shifting Registers (2011), Makers of Empty Dreams (2014), Identity Papers (2016) and New York Hotel (2018) as well as his translation of Gezim Hajdari's Bitter Grass (2020).