Clay Thistleton has taught creative writing and literary studies in universities, community colleges and not-for-profit organisations since the 1990s. He is the author of Noisesome Ghosts (2018): an Elgin Award-nominated collection of found poetry, a volume of pandemic poems: After Spruce (2024): a semi-finalist in the North Street Book Prize and forthcoming from Action, Spectacle American Geegaws: a collection of poems steeped in cultural artefacts of the United States. His current project, ‘Never Mind the Saucers’ (Stranger Press, forthcoming), examines documented instances of alien-human sexual contact. Along with his son Dylan, Clay lives in New South Wales, Australia with a fluctuating number of feral cats..

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"... one of the best poetical cunts I know ..."

- John Bryan, author of

Love Has Been Liquidated

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