Oz Hardwick is a European poet and academic, whose work has been widely published in international journals and anthologies. He has published “a dozen or so” full collections and chapbooks, including Learning to Have Lost (IPSI, 2018) which won the 2019 Rubery International Book Award for poetry, and most recently Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Hedgehog, 2024). His manuscript Orion Highway won the 2024 Dolors Alberola International Poetry Prize and will be published by Dalya Press in 2025. Oz is Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University. www.ozhardwick.co.uk
