Neil Elder

Neil Elder was born in Pinner, Middlesex, not far from where he now lives. After leaving Stirling University, where he read English, in 1994, Neil worked in the custodial sector, before a short spell as a freelance legal clerk for solicitors. Neileventually surrendered to the teaching profession and currently teaches at a school in Ealing. He is married with two children.

Neil has had work published in a number of journals and magazines, The Rialto, Envoi, Acumen, and The Interpreter's House are just some of them. He appears in the anthology, The Book of Love and Loss (Belgrave Press). In 2014, Neil was shortlisted for the Frogmore Poetry Prize and also for the Wells Festival Poetry Prize. His debut pamphlet Codes of Conduct won the Cinnamon Press Poetry Pamphlet prize in 2015. A full collection, The Space Between Us will be published by Cinnamon in July, 2018.