emilycritchley was
born in Athens, Greece in 1980, & now lives
in Cambridge where she teaches practical criticism at Queen's college
& is finishing a PhD in contemporary American women's experimental
poetry. She is also a visiting lecturer in The Creative Imagination at
the University of East London. Her first 2 collections of poetry:
The
Dirt Glitch Land Alter Affair and
How to make Millions
were printed by Arehouse press in 2004. More recent collections can be
found online at www.dusie.org, www.intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com
& www.how2journal.com. Critchley has also been anthologised in
Quid
15,
in blossoms atop reeds it flares,
Skald 23
&
Plantarchy 2.
* Of All the Surprises
is the digital version of Critchley's Dusie Wee Chap, first
published in early 2007 by Dusie Press.