Richard Williams was born in Birmingham in 1965, grew up in Frome, lived in London and is now back in Portsmouth. He has had some success with poems in magazines such as Acumen, Orbis, Envoi, Brittle Star, South, Frogmore Papers and Poetry Monthly.

Richard has been involved in local poetry organisation Tongues & Grooves since 2007. He helped with the selection of poems for the Portsmouth anthology and has organised and hosted a ‘Poetry of Exile’ evening.