My profile

Biography

Ra Page is the founder and CEO of Manchester-based publishing house, Comma Press. He has edited over 20 anthologies, including The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories (Penguin, 1999), The New Uncanny (winner of the Shirley Jackson Award, 2008) and most recently Protest: Stories of Resistance (2017). He has coordinated a number of publisher development initiatives, including Literature Northwest (2004-2013), and the Northern Fiction Alliance (2016 onwards). He is a former journalist and has also worked as a producer and director on a number of short films. He read Physics and Philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford and has an MA in English from the University of Manchester.