Kathleen McPhilemy’s guest reader at Stanza 2 Open Mic 24, at 7PM on Monday 27th February on Zoom, is Claire Cox.

Born in Hong Kong, Claire now lives and works in Oxfordshire. She is co-founder and Associate Editor at ignitionpress, winner of the 2021 Michael Marks Publishers’ Award. Claire recently completed a part-time practice-based PhD with Royal Holloway, University of London, studying poetry and disaster. Her poems have been published in magazines and online, including Ink, Sweat & Tears, Magma, Spelt, Envoi, Butcher’s Dog, Anthropocene, Lighthouse and Poetry Salzburg Review. She was one of three winning poets included in Primers: Volume Five (Nine Arches Press, 2020), and the winner of the 2020 Wigtown Alastair Reid Pamphlet Prize.
To follow Kathleen’s very successful Stanza 2 Open Mic series, you can now go to a dedicated page on the Stanza 2 Website, at https://oxfordstanza2.wordpress.com/stanza-2-open-mic/