ABOUT

Founded by Merryn Williams in 1996, The Interpreter's House is an independent poetry magazine seeking to platform and provide a welcoming home for the best in new writing. Since June 2018, it has been under the stewardship of Georgi Gill. We publish three times a year in February, June, and October. Now an online magazine, all content under the new editorship will be free and accessible, as are submissions to the magazine. 
 

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Georgi Gill (Editor) is a PhD researcher with the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry at the University of Edinburgh, exploring the role of poetry in dialogues about multiple sclerosis. Her poems have been widely published in, among others, Bare Fiction, Gutter, Under the Radar, The Honest Ulsterman, Abridged, Glasgow Review of Books and Coast to Coast to Coast. She has also been published in various anthologies, including the Saboteur-nominated Stairs and Whispers (Nine Arches) and #Me Too (Fair Acre Press). Her first collection Limbo was published by Blue Diode in 2021 and shortlisted for Scotland’s National Book Awards in the Best First Book 2022 category..

Louise Peterkin (Poetry Editor) is a poet from Edinburgh. In 2016 she was a recipient of a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in the poetry category. She is the co-editor along with Rob A. Mackenzie of Spark: Poetry and Art Inspired by the Novels of Muriel Spark (2018, Blue Diode Press) She has had poems featured in a number of publications including The Dark Horse, Glasgow Review of Books, Magma, New Writing Scotland and The North. Her first collection of poetry The Night Jar was published by Salt in 2020. She works full time for The University of Edinburgh as a Library Assistant. She tweets @PeterkinLouise

Lizzie Fowler (Fiction Editor) is a writer of speculative fiction, currently seeking representation for her first novel. Her short fiction has appeared in Lucent Dreaming Magazine, Storgy Online, The Cabinet of Heed, Reflex Fiction and Palm-Sized Press, and she was the winner of Scribble Lit’s first annual competition for beginning and emerging writers. She has worked as a bookseller, TEFL teacher, publishing assistant, PhD student, neuropsychology researcher, and currently as a data analyst for NHS Scotland. She tweets @lizzie_fowler

Andrew Wells (Reviews, Essays and Podcast Editor) recently graduated from the University of East Anglia with a BA in English Literature with Creative Writing, and he now works as a publisher. His poetry, most recently concerned with eco-poetics and formal experiment, has appeared in Minor Lit(s), 3:AM Magazine, Poetry Wales, and Amberflora, among others, and his non-fiction in Fanzine and Glasgow Review of Books. He released his first pamphlet, J/W/U, with PYRAMID Editions in 2016.  He has read for the Enemies Project, as part of the North by North West Poetry Tour, and Drawing Breath.  Andrew is also the founding editor of HVTN Press and he tweets @newlygoose

Former Editors

Merryn Williams (founder), Simon Curtis, Martin Malone, Charles Lauder Jr.