Canadian poet Evan Jones has lived in Manchester since 2005. He has a PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Manchester.

His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (2005), was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Poetry. His second collection, Paralogues (2012), was published by Carcanet, who will publish his third collection, Later Emperors, in 2020. He has taught full-time at the University of Bolton since 2013.