Andy Willoughby is a poet and playwright from Middlesbrough, he is a director of Ek Zuban Press and Literature Development and Editor of Kenaz magazine. He works on a number of social and educational projects as a writer/director and lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Teesside. He performs his work, often with music, all over Europe and the UK, and runs Writing Visions Poetry Cabaret in Middlesbrough with fellow poet and Ek Zuban director Bob Beagrie.He has published 3 books -The Wrong California (Mudfog 2004) Tough (Smokestack 2005) and Peripheries - a collaborative bilingual pamphlet with Finnish poet Riina Katajavuori (Ek Zuban 2006).