Noah Birksted-Breen (Snow) translated and directed contemporary Russian plays for staging in the UK for his ensemble Sputnik Theatre Company (www.sputniktheatre.co.uk) for over fifteen years. In 2017, he completed a PhD at Queen Mary University of London, and subsequently worked for three years as a researcher of contemporary Russian culture for Creative Multilingualism at the University of Oxford. Noah is a Researcher in Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment and is currently completing an MA in Creative Writing at Birkbeck. In 2019 he was the ?Hackney Winner' of Spread the Word’s City of Stories competition. In 2021, ‘Beef’ was published in The Real Story, and three eco-poems appeared in The Mechanics’ Institute Review.

Noah's work appears in Issue 8 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.