Martin Corless-Smith was born and raised in Worcestershire, England. His degrees include a BA and an MFA in painting and printmaking, an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. His thirteenth book Golden Satellite Debris (Shearsman Books, UK) was released in 2024. His book of translations, Odious Horizons: Some versions of Horace came out in 2019. The Poet’s Tomb, a collection of essays, was published in 2020 from Parlor Press. He edits the Free Poetry series.