About Phillip Vine

Phillip Vine was born in 1951 in Cambridgeshire. Since then he has also lived in Swindon, Hull, Glasgow, East Sussex, Gwynedd, Cumbria, and in Houghton. He now lives in Downham Market in Norfolk.

Phillip read History and Social & Political Sciences at Cambridge before broadening his education as a builder’s labourer and as a trade union shop steward. He has also worked as a teacher and as the editor of Words International literary magazine and as club secretary of Carlisle United Football Club and as a ghostwriter.

He has had numerous poems, short stories, articles and interviews published in various magazines and newspapers.