Kirsty AllisonKirsty Allison was born in London in 1975. Her band is Vagrant Lovers. She is the founder of Cold Lips, Managing Editor of Ambit, and edited the arts on DJMag for five years (currently on hold). She has DJed internationally with Irvine Welsh, Kris Neds and Howard Marks, presented on TV, broadcast on radio, created independent film, had artwork in the Tate, and shared the stage with Thurston Moore, Dr JCC, various bands at festivals including Pikes Literary Festival, Byline & Curious. She opened the Convenanza festival with poetry. Past books include Making Something Out of Nothing for the Red Gallery, hand-sewn poetry collections sold at gigs, and she recently created Now Is Now, a collection of poetry and lyrics since 2007 to thank paying subscribers of her Substack site (the foreword is written by Malik Ameer Crumpler). She began working as a journalist as a teenager, and has also worked as a professor, consultant, copywriter, model, milliner, bad waitress, and rubbish PA. Psychomachia is her debut novel. Read More Read Less