Chris Emery lives in Cromer with his wife and children. He is a director of Salt. He has published three collections of poetry, a writer's guide, an anthology of art and poems, and edited editions of Emily Bronte, Keats and Rossetti. His work has been widely published in magazines and anthologised. He is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing, edited by David Morley and Philip Neilsen. He is poet-in-residence at Roehampton University for 2013.