Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and ten poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Forever Alive (Dare-Gale Press, 2022), and her most recent collections are the long lyric manifesto White/ Other (The 87 Press, 2022) and Hyena! (Poetry Bus Press, 2023). Fran is the newly minted Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University for 2022-23. She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters, a member of the new Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and she edits the Soul Food column for Communist Review. When not taking the fight to the establishment, Fran hides out in Kent with her beloved pit bull and eternal muse, Manny.

Fran says: The Hyena! Cycle uses therianthropy - the magical transformation of people into animals - as a figure for the embodied effects of sudden and traumatic loss. But in this collection Hyena! takes on a life of her own, she becomes a mode of writing and thinking, at once misanthropic and compassionate; extrovert, mercurial, ferocious and savvy. She becomes, in other words, not just a response to loss, but a way of channelling and resisting grief's slow diminishment of self.

We say: Doctor Fran Lock's full collection, Hyena! can only be described as extraordinary, words woven from a unique lexicography of lyrical alchemy, this conjured new world of Hyena! will drown you, save you, raise you up, change you. Do not miss this book! Fran is this generation's most exciting poet at the peak of her powers.