Dr. Martin Glaz Serup was born in 1978 and lives in Copenhagen. He has published seven children’s books, most recently an illustrated story entitled Yana and Eliah (and many other kids) (2013) He has also published four chapbook-essays, as well as seven collections of poetry, most recently Roman nights (2013) and the long poem The Field (2010), which is also published in USA (2011), Sweden (2012) and Finland (2014) and under publication in Germany (2016). Serup has been involved in editing the literary journals Apparatur, Litlive, Hvedekorn, and since 2011 a member of the literary blog collective Promenaden. He was awarded the Michael Strunge Prize for poetry, has received a Gold medal from The University of Copenhagen for his dissertation on Relationel Poetry, which was published as a book at the University Press of Southern Denmark (2013). In 2012 he was awarded the prestigious three-year grant from the Danish Art's Council and in 2015 he got his PhD on a dissertation on Cultural Memory and Conceptual Witness Literature