In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein

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Notes on contributor

Omar Sabbagh is a widely published poet, writer and critic. His first collection and his latest, fourth collection, are, respectively: My Only Ever Oedipal Complaint and To The Middle of Love (Cinnamon Press, 2010/17). His Beirut novella, Via Negativa: A Parable of Exile, was published with Liquorice Fish Books in March 2016; and a new collection of short fictions, Dye and Other Stories, was released in September 2017. He has published or will have published scholarly essays on George Eliot, Ford Madox Ford, G.K. Chesterton, Robert Browning, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Joseph Conrad, Lytton Strachey, T.S. Eliot, Basil Bunting, Hilaire Belloc, Henry James, George Steiner, and others, as well as on many contemporary poets. He holds a BA in PPE from Oxford, three MAs from the University of London, in English Literature, Creative Writing and Philosophy, and a PhD in English Literature from Kings College London. He was Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the American University of Beirut from 2011–2013 and now teaches at the American University in Dubai.