Stephen Mooney - completed his PhD in temporality and contemporary poetics in 2009 at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he currently works as a researcher and is part of the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre there. He is also a poet, part of the performative poetry grouping 'London Under Construction', and one of those behind the small poetry press 'Veer Books' (www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/publications/veer-books).