Vik Shirley is a poet from Bristol currently studying for a PhD in 'Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry' at the University of Birmingham. Her first collection, The Continued Closure of the Blue Door, will be published by HVTN Press in 2020, as will her Hesterglock Press pamphlet, Disrupted Blue and other poems on Polaroid. Her work has appeared in such places as Queen Mob's Teahouse, Shearsman, 3am Magazine, Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter’s House, Dostoyevsky Wannabe Cities: Bristol and the Verve Poetry Press anthology, It all Radiates Outwards. She is Assistant Prose Poetry Editor of Pithead Chapel.
