R. M. Francis is a writer from the Black Country. He completed his PhD at the University of Wolverhampton, where he is lecturer in Creative and Professional Writing. He's the author of five poetry Chapbook collections: Transitions; (The Black Light Engine Room, 2015) Orpheus; (Lapwing Publications, 2016) Corvus' Burnt-wing Love Balm and Cure-All; (The Black Light Engine Room Press, 2018); Lamella (Original Plus Chapbooks, 2019) and Fieldnotes from a Deep Topography of Dudley (Wild Pressed Books 2019). In 2020 Smokestack Books published his first full length collection, Subsidence, and his debut novel, Bella is out with Wild Pressed Books. In spring 2019 he became the inaugural David Bradshaw Writer in Residence at Oxford University. In 2020-22 he was the Poet in Residence for the Black Country Geological Society. His second novel, The Wrenna, is published with Wild Pressed Books in 2021. In March 2023 his collection of poems, essays and fieldnotes, The Chain Coral Chorus, is due out with Play Dead Press. He is reviews editor for the Journal of Class and Culture. In 2023, his collection of Horror Stories, Ameles / Currents of Unmindfulness, is due out with Poe Girl Publishing