Chris Sykes (London, England) is a member of the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters as well as the Society of Authors and he was at one time Deputy Chair of The Writers Guild of Great Britain.
When he is not writing he is also an excellent and popular teacher and currently divides his time between directing summer schools for the University of Sussex and teaching creative writing for a number of institutions including the University of Oxford and the City Literary Institute, London.
He has written and extensively published poetry in the UK and abroad, is a former BBC scriptwriter, and has also written and directed a number of plays, in the West End and elsewhere.