The Falling Thread

Adam O'Riordan is the author of two collections of poems In the Flesh and A Herring Famine and the short story collection The Burning Ground. He grew up in Manchester and later read English at Oxford, winning scholarships to do a Masters and PhD with Professor Andrew Motion at the University of London. After working in publishing for several years, he was appointed Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2008 and a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011. Until 2019 he was Academic Director of Manchester Writing School and Programme Leader for the Creative Writing MA/MFA. adamoriordan.com