I’m a writer based in rural Northumbria in the UK. I love northern England all the more because it’s my country of adoption – my grandfather came here as a refugee from Lithuania during the Second World War. The landscape inspires me to poetry of the magical-realist kind, and my work has appeared in several British literary magazines. I’m not quite sure why the area also inspires me to erotic M/M prose, but I don’t look the gift horse in the mouth. I live with my partner and cats and accept my place at the bottom of their hierarchy.