Gale BurnsGale Burns is a London-based award-winning poet. He's a recipient of the Serbian Indjija International Prize (2017), the Menada Prize at the Tetova International Festival (2023), and the Shoreham Wordfest Poetry Prize (2025). He has been a writer in esidence at Kingston University as well as the University Hospital Lewisham, and served as vice chair of the European Association of Creative Writing Programmes. He is a convener of the influential Shuffle poetry series and a former Hawthornden Fellow. He has published three pamphlets and the collection, Mute House, with Eyewear Publishing. His work has been translated into French, Slovenian, Serbian, Romanian, Czech, and Arabic. Gale is also a psychotherapeutic counsellor, advising Greenpeace UK on climate distress, and a member of Poets for the Planet. www.galeburns.co.uk Read More Read Less