Stephen Mooney is a lecturer in Contemporary Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Surrey, as well as at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he is part of the organising committee of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre (CPRC) there. He is a poet, part of the performative poetry grouping 'London Under Construction', and one of the editors of the small poetry press Veer Books. He is the co-editor of the Readings web journal and co-assistant editor of the PORES web journal, as well as reviews editor for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry and the UK editor of VLAK Magazine. His poetry has appeared in various places and web-places, and he is the author of DCLP (Veer Books, 2008) and co-author of Shuddered (Veer Books, 2010).