A Census of Preconceptions

Oz Hardwick lives in York England. He is a poet photographer musician and academic whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. He has published nine full collections and chapbooks including Learning to Have Lost (Canberra: IPSI 2018) which won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for poetry and most recently the prose poetry sequence Wolf Planet (Clevedon: Hedgehog 2020). He has also edited or co-edited several anthologies including The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Scarborough: Valley Press 2019) with Anne Caldwell. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University.