Neil Leadbeater is an author, essayist, poet and critic living in Edinburgh, Scotland. His short stories, essays, articles and poems have been published widely in anthologies and journals both at home and abroad. His most recent books are Librettos for the Black Madonna published by White Adder Press, Scotland (2011) and The Worcester Fragments published by Original Plus, England (2013). Two further collections, The Fragility of Moths (Biblioteca Universalis, Romania)and The Loveliest Vein of Our Lives (Poetry Space, England) are due out later this year. His work has been translated into Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.  He is a regular reviewer for Galatea Resurrects (A Poetry Engagement) which is an on-line journal based in California, USA.