Max Hawker works in frontline children’s social care in Croydon, where he lives with his wife and two children. He has had poetry and short stories - occasionally nominated for awards - appear in publications run by Dog Horn Publishing, Kingston University Press, Arachne Press and Rebel Poetry, among others. He holds an MA by Research in English Literature from Kingston University, where he also studied at undergraduate level, and has previously worked in editing and education. His love of reading and writing stems from excellent academic role models both from his school and university days, without whom he would not be the writer he is today.