Damian Walford Davies was born in Aberystwyth in 1971 and teaches in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University. A collection of poems, Whiteout (co-written with Richard Marggraf Turley), appeared from Parthian in 2006, and his first full collection, Suit of Lights, was published by Seren in 2009 (a Wales Literature Exchange “Bookshelf” choice for 2010). He is completing his third collection, Alabaster Girls, whose central sequence responds to the moon landings of 1969–72. In his dreams (and sometimes out of them), he aims to become the first poet in (virtual) residence on the moon.