Martin Glaz Serup was born in 1978 and lives in Copenhagen where he is currently living with his family. He has published ten children’s books, five chapbooks (most recently Reading Places at Canadian No Press (2017)), as well as seven collections of poetry, most recently Roman Nights (2013) and the long poem The Field (2010), which is also published in USA (2011), Sweden (2012), Finland (2014), Germany (2016) and Mexico (2017). Serup has been involved in editing the literary journals Apparatur, Litlive, Hvedekorn, and from 2011-2017 a member of the literary blog collective Promenaden. He was awarded the “Michael Strunge Prize” for poetry, has received a “Gold medal” from The University of Copenhagen for his dissertation on “Relational Poetry”, which was published as a book at the University Press of Southern Denmark (2013). In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious three-year grant from the Danish Art’s Council and in 2015 he got his PhD on a dissertation on Cultural Memory and Conceptual Witness Literature. He teaches Poetics and Creative Writing at the University of Copenhagen.