About Me

Damon Lord (pronouns: he/him/his) is a writer of fiction and poetry, and a researcher in English and Creative Writing. Originally from Wales, he now lives in Worcester.

He is currently undertaking a PhD in English and Creative Writing, exploring audience engagement with serial forms of narrative. His work is concerned with storytelling, form, and the ways readers interact with narrative over time.

Alongside this, he works in higher education and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA). He has taught English Language at university level, and holds an ongoing interest in creative writing pedagogy, particularly in relation to accessibility, inclusion, and learner agency.

His writing draws on memory, lived experience, and questions of identity. He is particularly interested in short-form and memoir-driven work, and in how literature can open out spaces that feel reflective, inclusive, and humane.

He served as Worcestershire Poet Laureate (2023–24), promoting poetry through performance, public events, and community work across the county, and has been involved in Worcester’s spoken word scene for over a decade.

His work is shaped by a longstanding interest in accessibility and representation, informed in part by his experience as a disabled writer. He has been writing since childhood, and continues to see writing as a way of thinking through experience as much as a creative practice.

Damon’s wider interests include history, language, and spoken word performance, and he continues to explore the relationship between storytelling, identity, and lived experience.