Silcock, Marcus: - "Born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, Marcus Silcock (formerly Slease) has made his home in Turkey, Poland, Italy, South Korea, the United States, Spain, and the United Kingdom - experiences that inform his surreal-absurd travel writing. He co-edits surreal-absurd for Mercurius magazine. His poetry has been translated into Turkish, Slovakian, Polish, and Danish. He is the author of Never Mind the Beasts (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), The Green Monk (Boiler House Press), and Play Yr Kardz Right (Dostoyevsky Wannabe), among others. Currently, he lives in Sitges and teaches high school in Barcelona. Find out more at: Never Mind the Beasts (www.nevermindthebeasts.com)"