Paul Sutherland was born in Ontario, Canada, in 1947, and arrived in the UK in 1973. He is the founder of Dream Catcher, an international literary journal, and his own writing has appeared in numerous collections, pamphlets, anthologies, newspapers and periodicals. His New and Selected Poems was published in 2017 by Valley Press.He has an MA in English Literature from the University of York, and became both a Sufi Muslim and a freelance writer in 2004. He lives with his wife in Lincolnshire.