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Kirsten Irving

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Kirsten Irving is a poet, vanilla copywriter, kink copywriter, and voiceover artist living and perving in London. She co-runs the collaborative poetry press Sidekick Books with Jon Stone, and is the editor of more than ten anthologies, on subjects ranging from video games to animals in cinema. Her writing has been published by Salt and Happenstance, featured in Bizarre magazine, New Statesman, and various anthologies, and thrown out of a helicopter. Her latest projects include a collaboration on post-apocalyptic Japanese demons, a one-person poetry show about the movie Battle Royale, and the online project, Love Carcass, about one woman’s secret sex life with a beast. Follow Kirsten @KoftheTriffids for tweets about crows, robots, and crowbots.

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