Pete Ayrton Editor

Pete Ayrton was born in London in 1943. After studying and briefly teaching philosophy, a period of left-wing tourism in France and Italy led to his learning to read and converse in these languages, and to take part in the intense, opaque discourses of Marxism. A period of work as translator led to a job as editor with Pluto Press and to his founding in 1986 of Serpent's Tail with the specific remit of publishing fiction in translation. No Man's Land, his anthology of First World War writing, was published in 2014, and REVOLUTION!, his anthology of writing from the Russian Revolution, is published by Harbour Books.