Ken Champion is a widely published poet whose work has appeared in over a hundred magazines and anthologies in the UK and US, including The Rialto, Smiths Knoll, Magma, African American Review and Iodine Poetry Journal. His fiction has been published in Bellevue Literary Review, Chimera and other literary journals.
He has published two collections of poetry, African Time and Cameo Poly (The Tall Lighthouse), won poetry competitions, including The New Cauldron, and awarded second place in Purple Patch magazine’s Small Press Poets of the Year 2006. His anthologies include Miracle & Clockwork: the best of Other Poetry, Poets Anonymous International Poetry Anthology, Corporate Watch's This Poem is Sponsored By... and Mind's Off The Wall Anthology of Comic Verse. He reads regularly in London and elsewhere and co-hosts More Poetry in London’s Borough Market. He is currently working on his next collection. A selection of his poems can be found at The Poetry Library.
Ken was born in London’s East End, lectures in sociology and philosophy, and has worked as a decorator, sign writer, mural painter and commercial artist.