Blake Morrison has written poetry, fiction, memoirs, literary criticism and libretti. He first worked for the Times Literary Supplement  and was later literary editor for The Observer and the Independent on Sunday . He now writes regularly for the Guardian . Since 2003 he has been Professor of Creative and Life Writing at Goldsmiths College, university of London. 

His memoir And When Did You Last See Your Father?  won several prizes and in 2007 was made into a film with Colin Firth, Jim Broadbent, Juliet Stevenson and Carey Mulligan. A second memoir about his Kerry-born mother, Things My Mother Never Told Me, was published in 2002. His novels include South of the River  (2008) and The Last Weekend  (2010) - the latter was made into a three-part television drama in 2012. He co-edited The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry  with Andrew Motion in 1982 and also published the first critical study of Seamus Heaney in the same year. Among his other books is As If, a study of the murder of two year-old James Bulger by two 10-year-olds in 1993. He has also adapted six plays for the theatre company Northern Broadsides, including versions of Oedipus  and Antigone  and a reworking of Chekhov's The Three Sisters as a play about the Brontës. His latest publications are a collection of poems, A Discoverie of Witches, and a pamphlet, This Poem .