Chris McCabe was born in Liverpool in 1977. He has published poems in a number of places including Poetry Salzburg Review; Shearsman, Magma and Poetry Review. His first collection The Hutton Inquiry was published by Salt in 2005. This includes a sequence of poems that chronicle the circumstances surrounding the death of government science adviser Dr David Kelly in 2003 and Britain’s involvement in the war in Iraq.

He has read his work at the Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry, The Troubador and at the Poetry Society. He also discussed and read some of his poetry on BBC World Service on Armistice Day 2005 and featured a poem on the Oxfam CD Lifelines. In 2008 a pamphlet called The Borrowed Notebook was published by Landfill, about notes for a novel that his father left behind after he died.

He currently works as a Joint Librarian of the Poetry Library, London.