Adham Smart was born in 1992 and grew up in Cairo and London. He was three times a winner of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award and has had writing in The Salt Book of Younger Poets, The Cadaverine Anthology and Korsakoff’s Paper Chain, as well as a number of magazines. He has contributed as a translator to the anthology Six Georgian Poets and has translated All the World’s Mysteries, a novel by the Georgian writer David Dephy, into English. In 2019 he published his debut collection, yes yes mouth, with Valley Press.