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Stephen Romer Editor, Translator & Author

Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire in 1957 and educated at Cambridge, Harvard and the British Institute in Paris. Since 1981 he has lived in France, where he is Maitre de Conferences in the English department of Tours university. He has been three times Visiting Professor in French at Colgate University, New York. Romer has published three previous collections of poetry with Oxford University Press and is the editor of the Faber anthology Twentieth-Century French Poems. He writes on French literature and modern poetry for the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.