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Michael Langan works as a freelance editor, manuscript assessor, and writing mentor, and also facilitates creative writing workshops and critical reading seminars. He studied English Literature in the 1980s, Cultural History in the 1990s and, in 2005, was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moores University. He taught Creative Writing and English Literature at Greenwich University, London, for ten years before giving it all up to focus on his writing life.

Michael was Arts Editor of the online LGBTQ arts and culture journal, Polari Magazine, during which time he wrote on visual art, cinema, and books. Highlights included interviewing the novelists Edmund White and Tom Spanbauer, and the filmmaker Sebastien Lifschitz. For t ...more

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Proofs & Theories: Essays on Poetry

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