Earl Slocombe is a Yorkshire-born writer who somehow ended up in Pennsylvania after marrying the love of his life and moving across an ocean. He has been writing poetry since he was a teenager, though for many years his audience consisted primarily of a family dog named Charlie. Rather than keeping his poems in notebooks, Earl sent them as Facebook messages to Charlie's account because nobody checked it and, eventually, nobody remembered the password.

His writing lives somewhere between melancholy and nonsense, often inspired by late-night thoughts, everyday absurdities, woodland walks, and jobs he was happy to leave behind. After spending years working in warehouses and writing poems about the experience, he eventually escaped into the world of IT, where he continues to find new and creative things to overthink.

When not writing, Earl can usually be found hiking through the woods in search of mushrooms, playing online RPGs, or flying drones over places that look like they belong in fantasy novels. On one mushroom-hunting expedition, he followed a trail of rocks marked with hand-drawn mushrooms and briefly became convinced he was being recruited into a secret forest cult. It turned out to be a perfectly innocent system used by other foragers, which was admittedly less exciting.

Earl lives with his wife, who remains his best friend despite finding nearly everything he does ridiculous, and their three dogs: Vegeta, a distinguished English Bull Terrier and devoted couch potato; Piccolo, a Cairn Terrier who functions as a living security system; and Pablo, a poodle mix whose energy strongly suggests he was once a cartel boss in a previous life.

Friends describe Earl as a wizard, a title he has done little to discourage. During his warehouse years, he printed and distributed wizard business cards for no particular reason. He still considers this a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

He remains delighted whenever people read his poetry and mildly suspicious of anyonewho claims to fully understand it.

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Instagram: @mrwamble.poetry

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