Escalator Live Literature winner 2008: Dean Parkin
Dean was born in 1969 and left school at the age of sixteen to work at a printers and then in a bookshop. He currently works for The Poetry Trust and The Rialto poetry magazine. An experienced performer, he has given many readings across the UK and has recently collaborated with jazz pianist Maurice Horhut in the The Poet & Piano Man Show. Since March 2007 he has been poet-in-residence on the Roy Waller Show on BBC Radio Norfolk, and his second pamphlet, Just Our Luck, was published by The Garlic Press in March 2008.
Link to Dean's website