Chris Emery

Chris Emery, aka Christopher Hamilton-Emery, is a poet and director of independent publisher Salt. He has published three collections of poetry, a writer’s guide, and an anthology of art and poems. He has edited selections of Emily Brontė, John Keats and Christina Rossetti.

His poetry has been widely published in magazines and anthologised, most recently in Identity Parade: New British and Irish Poets. He is a contributor to The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing. He was a regular contributor to The Writer’s Handbook and a contributor to The Insiders' Guide to Independent Publishing.

In 2006, Hamilton-Emery was awarded an American Book Award.

Together with his wife, Jennifer, he founded and has run Salt since 1999. He has worked in publishing for the British Council, Cambridge University Press, Polity Press and Cavendish Publishing and is currently on the Advisory Board of Inkandescent.

He is working on four new full-length collections of poetry: Modern Fog, A Department of Spectres, Ordinary Time, and Endless Bright Beginning. He lives in North Norfolk, England.