Jack Parlett is a writer, poet and professor. He completed a PhD at Cambridge University on gay cruising in New York poetry, and now holds a Junior Research Fellowship in English at University College, Oxford, where he also teaches literary theory and modern American literature. His poems have appeared in Hotel, Blackbox Manifold, and the BFI Flare zine, and his essays and reviews have appeared in Poetry London, the Cambridge Humanities Review, Lit Hub and elsewhere. He lives in London.