3 and BBC Radio 4 include: Lexicon (2015, dir. Toby Swift, starring Sally Phillips), Time For One More Question, (2015, dir. Nadia Molinari, a celebration of the Hay Festival), Shakespeare's Fire, (2015, dir. Frank Stirling, starring Jane Horrocks), Cyrano De Bergerac, (2015, dir. Susan Roberts, starring Tom Burke), The City of Tomorrow, (2014, dir. Tim Dee, starring Pippa Haywood and Julian Rhind-Tutt), The Gambler (2009, dir. Guy Retallack, starring Patricia Routledge) and Childminders (2006, dir. Peter Kavanagh, starring Olivia Williams). In 1994 he travelled to Iceland with his friend and fellow-poet Simon Armitage, to make a series for Radio 3. This became the travelogue Moon Country (Faber, 1996). In 1996 they travelled to Brazil for another Radio 3 series, To Bahia and Beyond. Opera Maxwell's libretto for David Bruce's The Firework Maker's Daughter, (2013, dir. John Fulljames, based on the Philip Pullman story) was nominated for an Olivier Award in 2014. It played at the Linbury in the Royal Opera House, as well as in New York and a UK tour. His other operas include Luke Bedford's Seven Angels, premiered at Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in June 2010 before a UK tour, and Elena Langer's opera The Lion's Face, which toured the UK in 2009. A short version of The Lion's Face, (then titled The Present) won the Audience Prize at the Zurich Opera House's New Opera Festival in January 2009. His other libretti include The Girl of Sand, also composed by Elena Langer and performed at the Almeida Opera Festival in 2004, and The Birds (after Aristophanes), composed by Edward Dudley Hughes and performed by I Fagiolini at the City of London Festival in 2005. In 2016, Maxwell collaborated with David Bruce again, on Nothing, an opera adapted from the book by Janne Teller. This was staged at Glyndebourne in 2016 (dir. Bijan Sheibani) and subsequently at Aarhus, Denmark. Journalism, Editorial Maxwell was Poetry Editor of The New Republic from 2001 to 2007. He has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times. The Observer, The London Review of Books, The New York Times and The New Republic. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Welsh Academy. Teaching Maxwell has taught at Amherst College, Princeton, Columbia, NYU and The New School in the USA, and at The Universities of Warwick and Essex in the UK. He currently teaches on the M.A. at The