DrR. M. Francis

R. M. Francis is a course leader and senior lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing at the University of Wolverhampton. He's the author of poetry collections, Subsidence (Smokestack Books) and Palmer (V.Press), Novels, Bella and The Wrenna (Wild Pressed Books), a Waybook, The Chain Coral Chorus (Play Dead Press) and a book of short fiction, Ameles / Currents of Unmindfulness (Poe Girl Publications). His academic work has been published in international journals and edited collections, including his co-edited book, Smell, Memory and Literature in the Black Country (Palgrave MacMillan). In spring 2019 he became the inaugural David Bradshaw Writer in Residence at the University of Oxford. In 2020-22 he was the Poet in Residence for the Black Country Geological Society. He is reviews editor for the Journal of Class and Culture.