Nick Hayes is the author of The Rime of the Modern Mariner, an updating of Coleridge's famous poem and among the most highly regarded of recent British graphic novels. He has also published two collections of his short comics, Lovely Grey Day and 11 Folk Songs. He is the founding editor of Meat magazine, a periodical which has been showcasing new writing, comics and illustration for the last six years - and has won two Guardian Media awards.