Alice Kate Mullen is Manager of the Poetry Book Society. She read English Literature at Durham University. She has worked in poetry publishing since 2010 and was Marketing and Events Manager for Carcanet Press, Anvil and PN Review. She previously worked in bookselling and events co-ordinating at Waterstones and Shakespeare & Company, Paris, completed an Arts Council mentorship at Chicago’s Poetry Foundation in 2013 and was an Assistant Bibliotherapist at Sydney Writers’ Festival in 2016. In 2017 she co-founded the now annual Northern Poetry Symposium, a major state of the nation poetry summit at Sage, Gateshead.