Z. D. Dicks holds an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Gloucestershire. In 2016 he founded the Gloucestershire Poetry Society and the Gloucester Poetry Festival. He currently has three collections ‘Malcontent’ and ‘Intimate Nature’ with Black Eyes publishing (2019) and one ‘Vexed’ with Hedgehog Poetry Press (2020). Helen Ivory described his work as ‘muscular language’ and is himself ‘a gothic Seamus Heaney’ according to Anna Saunders.