Paul Munden is a poet and screenwriter living in North Yorkshire. He has published five poetry collections, most recently Chromatic (UWA Publishing 2017). He was director of Poetry on the Move, 2015–2017, and director of the UK’s National Association of Writers in Education, 1994–2018. He is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Leeds, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canberra. He is co-editor with Shane Strange and Alvin Pang of No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a Unique BBC Newscast (Recent Work Press, 2020).