About
Writer, performer, and publisher most esteemed for having been named the UK's first-ever LGBT+ History Month Poet Laureate in 2012, and Yorkshire's selected poet for the 2012 Olympics. He founded the writer development project known as Young Enigma and he has worked as Editor-in-Chief of Vada Magazine, as well as Dog Horn Publishing. He also performed a solo show called Ecstasies which toured throughout the UK in 2014.
Before Fame
He earned a bachelor's and a master's degree from the University of Leeds. He worked as Features Editor on Bent Magazine and as writer-in-residence at the I Love West Leeds Art Festival. His 2012 pamphlet Precocious, published by Fruit Bruise Press, was in the running for the Guardian First Book Prize.
Trivia
He was named on the 2013 LS13 list of 20 Best Writers Under 40 in Leeds and his book Patterflash received a Poetry Book Society recommendation in the year 2023. He has taught for The Poetry School and the University of Central Lancashire and served as chair on Black Gold Arts - a charity council aimed at mentoring QTIPOC artists throughout Manchester.
Family Life
He is the son of British Labour Party politician Alison Natalie Kay Lowe. He has expressed that he identifies as genderfluid; however, he uses he/his pronouns.
Associated With
He was the editor of the 2022 anthology The World Reimagined, which featured the works of a total of 30 poets, including Benjamin Zephaniah, John Agard, and Raymond Antrobus.
