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Graham Mort is Professor of Creative Writing and Transcultural Literature at Lancaster University, where he co-directs the Centre for Transcultural Writing and Research: His latest book of poems Cusp was published by Seren in 2011. His collaborative and multilingual public art installation and performance work include the Preston Peace Garden; The Pavement Project, Bradford; Brockholes National Park Centre; Sing Like a River, Beyond Borders Festival, Kampala; and work with the Gaelic language theatre company, Fir Clish, Lewis. He is currently working on an oral history project with older women in Kurdistan who lived through the terror and displacement of the Al-Anfal campaign. His new book of short stories, Terroir, is published by Seren Books (2015).