Eels with Michael Malay and Luke Thompson
The perfect opening to any Caught by the River weekend, as a pair of avowed eel enthusiasts — site contributor Michael Malay and Guillemot Press founder Luke Thompson — share their enthusiasm for everybody’s favourite snake-like, catadromous fish.
About Michael.
Michael Malay is a writer and teacher based in Bristol. He was raised in Jakarta, Indonesia, before moving to Australia with his family at the age of ten. His writing has been published in various journals, including The Clearing, Caught by the River, and The Willowherb Review. He is currently working on his first book about migration, extinction and uncharismatic creatures.
About Luke Thompson.
Born in Cornwall surrounded by animals (monkeys, parrots, frogs, dogs, bugs, mice, pigs, chickens and whatever else turned up) Luke now finds myself back in Cornwall writing about animals.
In 2016 he co-founded Guillemot Press, a very small publisher of beautiful books, with Sarah Cave.
He is a senior lecturer at Falmouth University, teaching non-fiction, poetry, publishing and collaboration.
