Maria Sledmere is a poet, artist, academic and occasional music journalist, living in Glasgow and raised in Ayrshire. She’s performed gifcore harp-pop as one half of Lossy Compressed, blogged for over fifteen years and enjoyed a long stint as a catastrophe waitress.
She has authored over twenty books of poetry, including Cocoa and Nothing with Colin Herd (SPAM Press), Visions & Feed (HVTN Press), String Feeling (Erotoplasty Editions), The Luna Erratum (Dostoyevsky Wannabe) and neutral milky halo (Guillemot Press). She also co-edited The Last Song: Words for Frightened Rabbit (Broken Sleep Books) with Aaron Kent.
Maria is editor-in-chief of SPAM Press and a member of A+E Collective. Her work as a poet, critic and collaborator has been highlighted in places such as It’s Nice That, Scottish Contemporary Artists Network, BBC Radio 3, The White Review, Dazed, The Skinny and The Poetry Project. She has worked with musicians including Lanark Artefax, Martha Ffion, Zoee and North Sea Dialect.
She lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Strathclyde and tutors English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, teaching on poetry, literary theory, short fiction, editing and publication. She has also designed and delivered multiple courses through Beyond Form Creative Writing, such as Writing the Everyday, Epistolary Experiments and Experimenting with Weather, and further delivered eco/technology themed workshops in collaboration with The Gingko Prize, The Nature Library, Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities, Civic House, Market Gallery, Assembly Aberdeen and other organisations.
