Nikolai Duffy

Nikolai Duffy is the author or two previous cross-genre poetry collections, and the literary non-fiction book, Relative Strangeness: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop. His creative work has been read and performed internationally, including London, Manchester, Dublin, New York, Providence, Columbus, Ljubljana, and Bochum. In 2019 he was awarded a UNESCO City of Literature Residency in Ljubljana. Common is his first novel. He teaches American literature, poetry, and critical-creative writing in the English Department at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he is co-Director of the Manchester Poetry Group, part of the Manchester Writing School.