Michael Langan works as a freelance editor, writing mentor and teacher, and also facilitates creative writing and critical reading workshops. He studied English Literature in the 1980s, Cultural History in the 1990s and, in 2005, was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing from Liverpool John Moores University. He taught Creative Writing and English Literature at Greenwich University, London, for ten years before giving it all up to focus on his writing career. Michael was Arts Editor of the online LGBTQ arts and culture journal, Polari Magazine, during which time he wrote on visual art, cinema, and books. Highlights included interviewing the novelists Edmund White and Tom Spanbauer, and the filmmaker Sebastien Lifschitz. For the past five years he has joined forces with The Literary Consultancy, London, to offer manuscript assessments to emerging LGBTQ+ writers as part of TLC’s Free Reads scheme, sponsored by the Arts Council and others. He has also devised and delivered Queer-themed tours of the permanent collections of major art institutions, including Tate Britain in London and the Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. Michael was born in Birkenhead, in the same house his parents lived in for most of their lives. He currently lives in Lisbon with the Portuguese artist Henrique Neves, who he married in 2016, and can hardly believe his luck.