United Kingdom
Sean Bw Parker (MA) is a writer, artist and lecturer in art, cultural theory and justice reform. He lived in Istanbul for ten years until 2014 where he lectured at Istanbul University, and gave a TED talk 'Stammering and Creativity'. He has published or contributed to a number of books, won six Koestler Arts awards (including a platinum for his play The Wolfstadt-Wire) and a Perrie Lectures essay award in 2019.
He has been published by the T.S. Eliot Foundation, Time Out Istanbul, Louder Than War and Cosmopolitan, appeared at the Brighton Science Festival, on NTV Turkey and BBC Radio Wales. He has interviewed Julie Burchill, Ed Harcourt, Kristin Hersh, Danny Macnamara and Ian Broudie among others, hosted shows by Mark Morriss, The Members and Eat Static at his Seafish venue on the Sussex coast, and was interviewed for a Sky Arts documentary in 2016. He was born in Exeter in 1975.
