Glyn Maxwell has published nine books of poetry, including The Breakage, The Sugar Mile, and The Nerve, which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 2003 His latest collection Hide Now is published in September. He was awarded the E.M.Forster Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1997, and was Poetry Editor of The New Republic from 2001 to 2007. Several of his plays have been staged in London and New York, including Wolfpit, The Forever Waltz, Broken Journey, The Lifeblood (British Theatre Guide’s ‘Best Play’ at Edinburgh Fringe 2004) and Liberty, which premiered at Shakespeare’s Globe this summer and is currently touring the UK. He has also written several libretti, travelogue, and two novels, the latest of which, The Girl Who Was Going To Die, was published this year.