Mark Lindsey was awarded his MA in Creative Writing from the University of Sheffield and his writing uses prose, poetry, poetic essays and collage to explore issues of fiction and truth, politics, history, misogyny, psychology and trauma. His research includes explorations of grief, the importance of the physical and its relation to truth in poetry and non-fiction and use of erasure as a method of exposure in the works of contemporary women poets. His work has been published by “independent, cross-cultural, multi-lingual experimental publisher” Pamenar Press and in print and online editions of the University of Sheffield’s creative writing journal Route 57. His first book NEXT TO NOTHING and THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A STORY was published by Beir Bua Press and is a winner of the 2021 Laurence Sterne Prize and was nominated for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for First Full Collection 2023. In 2026 he was narrative director for the branching narrative folklore game The Boggarts of the Spooklights as part of Sheffield DocFest Alternate Realities Challenge Lab which was built for Sheffield Hallam University’s Igloo Immersive Suite, a wraparound 360-degree VR environment. With Katie Brear he runs the ongoing Sheffield-based Writing For Wellbeing Workshop, a community group which uses writing as a means of promoting positive mental health. He is currently working on experimental collaborative chapbook with Cut’s A J Moore which is to be published through C22 Collective and is in the early stages of his first novel, a folk horror story with themes of religious trauma and substance abuse.