Gary Cummiskey

Who is Gary Cummiskey?

Gary Cummiskey is a South African poet and publisher.

He was born in England and moved to South Africa in 1983. He is the editor of Dye Hard Press, which since 1994 has published writers such as Gail Dendy, Arja Salafranca, Alan Finlay, Philip Zhuwao, Roy Blumenthal, Gus Ferguson, Kobus Moolman and Allan Kolski Horwitz. He is the editor of Green Dragon literary journal, which started in 2002.

Cummiskey is co-editor with Eva Kowalska of Who was Sinclair Beiles? published by Dye Hard Press in 2009. That same year, Cummiskey compiled Beauty Came Grovelling Forward, a selection of South African poetry and prose published online at www.bigbridge.org.

He was a participant in the 2008 Poetry Africa International Festival held in Durban, South Africa.

Through Dye Hard Press, Cummiskey published an anthology of South African short fiction, The Edge of Things, selected by Arja Salafranca, in 2011.

Cummiskey's work has been translated into French, Bangla and Greek. Three of his poems have inspired short films.

He published a book of short fiction, Off-ramp, in 2013.