Vik Shirley

Vik Shirley is a poet, writer, editor from Bristol living in Edinburgh. Her most recent book is Some Deer (Broken Sleep, 2024), a sequence of surreal prose poems selected as a Gutter Book of the Month. Other publications include Strangers Wave, a boxset of Joy Division photo poems (zimZalla, 2023) and Corpses (Sublunary Editions, 2020). Her third photo poetry collection, Persona Digitalia, was chosen for the inaugural PhotoWorks—in collaboration with David Solo and Jane and Jeremy—P5 Photo Poetry Series, and will be published Autumn, 2025. Her work has appeared in Poetry London, Magma, PN Review, The Rialto and Dreaming Awake: New Contemporary Prose Poetry from the United States, United Kingdom and Australia. Vik co-edits Surreal-Absurd for Mercurius, teaches for the Poetry School and has a PhD in Dark Humour and the Surreal in Poetry from the University of Birmingham, where her supervisor was Forward Prize-winning poet Luke Kennard.