Alan Hardy has for many years run an English language school for foreign students. He’s been published in such magazines as Envoi, Iota, Poetry Salzburg, The Interpreter’s House, Littoral, Orbis, South, Pulsar, Lothlorien and others. Poetry pamphlets Wasted Leaves (1995) and I Went With Her (2007). Though he has just recently started submitting again (after a little pause), he has always kept writing (and reading) poems.