“like listening in to the insomnia of Hamlet”
Simon Palfrey
“evocative of the mythological void state in which everything necessary existed all at once”
Christina Tudor-Sideri

Ansgar Allen is the author of books including a short history of Cynicism, and the novels, Black Vellum, Plague Theatre, The Wake and the Manuscript and The Sick List.
He is editor-in-chief at Erratum Press, and co-founded Risking Education, an imprint of Punctum Books. His writing has been published across a range of journals, books, and media (see Etc.), appearing in Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Turkish, German, Czech, Estonian, Farsi and Greek translation. He is based in Sheffield, UK.
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