R J Dent is a novelist, poet, translator, essayist and short story writer.
His novel, Myth, was published by Vanguard in July 2006.
He has translated Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, published by Creation Books in the autumn of 2007.
He is the author of poems, short stories and essays, which have appeared in a wide variety of magazines, journals and periodicals, including Writer’s Muse, Orbis, Chanticleer, Agenda, Panda, Roundyhouse and Philosophy Now. His translations of the poems of Alcaeus and of Baudelaire have appeared in Acumen and Inclement.
His literary influences are William Burroughs, Angela Carter, J G Ballard, and Ayn Rand, among others.
He lives in Sussex and is currently busy with his next writing project.
