Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. From 2012- 2016, he wrote and presented The Opera Hour on Resonance 104.4FM. From 2014- 2016, Richard was an Open Spaces artist resident at Snape Maltings exploring the links between poetry and opera. His poetry pamphlet Wound, published by Rialto, won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016. Richard's first book of poems is forthcoming from Faber & Faber in 2018.