Joseph Hunter is a fiction writer and poet based in Manchester, UK. His work has appeared (or is forthcoming) with Fairlight Books, Merion West, The Alchemy Spoon, New Feathers Anthology, Willows Wept Review, and Crocus Books. He teaches at the University of Manchester, where he is completing a PhD. He is writing a novel about the (self) destructive facets of masculinity. He is co-editor of The Manchester Review.