Scott Thurston lectures at the University of Salford where he teaches Innovative and Experimental Creative Writing. He co-runs The Other Room reading series in Manchester, edits The Radiator, a little magazine of poetics, and co-edits The Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry with Robert Sheppard. He is the author of three collections of poetry, as well as TALKING POETRIC: DIALOGUES IN INNOVATIVE POETRY (Shearsman Books, 2011), a collection of full-length interviews with the poets Karen Mac Cormack, Jennifer Moxley, Caroline Bergvall and Andrea Brady.