Jacob Silkstone

Jacob Silkstone (b 1989, UK) is a Bergen-based writer and editor, originally from the UK.

He has worked as a managing editor for two international literary journals, The Missing Slate (Pakistan) and Asymptote (Taiwan). At the former, he was the organiser of the 2014 Poetry World Cup, which received front-page media coverage in Singapore, Pakistan and Cyprus.

Silkstone’s own writing has appeared in various online journals and print anthologies, and he organised writing workshops in Sarajevo, Dubai and Islamabad. Before moving to Bergen, he taught at an international school in Dhaka, Bangladesh.