R J Dent is a freelance novelist, poet, translator, essayist and short story writer.

His latest book is an English translation of Le Comte de Lautréamont's The Songs of Maldoror, published by the University of Chicago Press & Solar Books.

He has also translated Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, which is published together with Artificial Paradise by Solar Books in 2009.

His poetry collection, Moonstone Silhouettes, was published in 2009 and his debut dark fantasy/horror novel Myth was published in 2006.

His poems, short stories, novellas and essays have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including Writer's Muse, Acumen, Inclement, Orbis, Roundyhouse, Chanticleer and Philosophy Now, to name but a few.

He has also translated major works by Alcaeus, Aragon, Apollinaire, Breton, Éluard, Heine, Masson, Rachilde and Vesaas.

R J Dent's literary influences are William S. Burroughs, Anna Kavan, J G Ballard, Angela Carter, Samuel Beckett and Ray Bradbury.

Contemporary authors he admires are Jeremy Reed, Pascale Petit, Stephen Barber, and Philippe Djian.