Dr Norbert Bugeja is a poet and academic. He is Senior Lecturer within the Mediterranean Institute of the University of Malta, and has lectured at the universities of Warwick (UK) and Kent (UK). He has published two poetry collections in Maltese, Nartici (Klabb Kotba Maltin, 2016) and Bliet (Edizzjonijiet Emma Delezio, 2009). His poetry has appeared in English translation in the collection South of the Kasbah (Midsea Books, 2015) and Stay, Fairy Tale, Stay! (Midsea Books / Inizjamed 2005). Bugeja’s poetry has also been published in numerous poetry journals and magazines, and aired on both international and local broadcast media. In 2009, his collection Bliet was awarded second placing in the National Book Awards for Poetry. Norbert Bugeja has read his poetry at festivals, reading sessions and conferences across Europe, the UK and the US, North Africa, Turkey and Southeast Asia. He is currently writing new poetry and working on his first novel.