Linda Black is a poet and artist (printmaker, painter, collagist). She has published three collections with Shearsman: Slant (2016), Root (2011) and Inventory (2008). The Son of a Shoemaker (Hearing Eye, 2012), collaged prose-poems based on the early life of Hans Christian Andersen with the author’s pen and ink illustrations, was the subject of a Poetry Cafe exhibition in 2013. She teaches for the Poetry School and is co-editor of Long Poem Magazine www.longpoemmagazine.org.uk