Louis Armand was born in Sydney in 1972 and since 1994 has lived in Prague, Czech Republic. He is a writer, publisher, visual artist and former subtitles technician at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. He is the author of five novels, including Breakfast at Midnight (2012), described by Richard Marshall in 3:AM magazine as "a perfect modern noir" (recently published in Czech translation by Argo), and Canicule (2013), "a homage to 70s New German Cinema, Baader-Meinhof, and the Man Without Qualities" (both from Equus). His most recent collections of poetry are Letters from Ausland (Vagabond, 2011) and Synopticon (with John Kinsella; LPB, 2012). Selections of his work also appear in the Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry and Best Australian Poems. In 2009 his screenplay Clair Obscur received honourable mention at the Alpe Adria Trieste International Film Festival. In 2004 he founded the Prague International Poetry Festival which has continued, since 2009 as the Prague Microfestival. His other publications include a translation of Véronique Vassiliou's N.O.: Le Détournement and work by Maghrebi writers Dorra Chammam, Mehdi Mahfoudh, Emmanuelle Pireyre, Leïla Sebbar, Moncef Ghachem and Raymond Farina. He has published critical essays on contemporary writers and artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Joshua Cohen, Karen Mac Cormack, Vincent Farnsworth, Pierre Joris, and Cy Twombly. He is the editor of Contemporary Poetics (Northwestern UP, 2007) and in 2010 he edited The Return of Král Majales: Prague's International Literary Renaissance, 1990-2010. He is presently an editor of the international magazine VLAK: Contemporary Poetics and the Arts.