Nikolai Duffy is a writer, lecturer, and publisher. He is the author of the books The Little Shed of Various Lamps (Very Small Kitchen), Up the Creek (Knives Forks Spoons), Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop (Shearsman) and the editor of Rosmarie Waldrop’s selected poems, Gap Gardening (New Directions). His poetry has been published and performed internationally. In 2019 he was awarded a UNESCO City of Literature residency in Ljubljana. He teaches in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is currently finishing his first novel.