Steve Spence lives in Plymouth and co-organises live poetry group - The Language Club. His reviews and poetry have appeared in Great Works, Shearsman, Stride, Tears in the Fence, Tenth Muse, and The Rialto. He was assistant editor of Terrible Work magazine for four issues and in 2007 completed an MA in Creative Writing at the University of Plymouth.
His debut book, A Curious Shipwreck (Shearsman 2010), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. His second book, Limits of Control (Penned in the Margins 2011) has just been published and he was a guest on the BBC Radio 3 programme, The Verb in February 2011.