Ian Seed is currently RLF Reading Round Fellow in Lancaster. He was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Liverpool, 2023–25, and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Chester, 2013–22. He gained a PhD in Italian literature from the University of Lancaster (2012), where he taught Italian literature and translation, as well as creative writing. Before that, he worked in different countries in Europe as an English teacher, technical writer and translator, and international project manager.

His first full-length collection of poetry, Anonymous Intruder was published by Shearsman in 2009. Since then, Shearsman have published Shifting Registers (2011), Makers of Empty Dreams (2014), Identity Papers (2016), New York Hotel (2018), selected by Mark Ford as a TLS Book of the Year, The Underground Cabaret (2020), and Night Window (2024). His latest collection is Forgetfulness (2026).

Seed’s translations include The Dice Cup (Wakefield Press, US, 2023), from the French of Max Jacob, The River Which Sleep Has Told Me (Fortnightly Review Odd Volumes, 2022), from the Italian of Ivano Fermini, Bitter Grass (Shearsman, 2020), from the Italian of Gëzim Hajdari, and The Thief of Talant (Wakefield Press, US, 2016), the first translation into English of Pierre Reverdy’s Le voleur de Talan (1917).