Stephen Gospage, a writer of poetry and short stories, was born in London in 1953 and spent most of his working life in Brussels. Now retired, he lives in Belgium, close to Waterloo. He has dual British and Belgian nationality and is proud to call himself a citizen of Europe. Several of his poems have appeared in the New European newspaper and he is a regular contributor to the Write Out Loud poetry blog. In 2022, he published a collection of poems entitled The Shape of Ukraine and contributed to Poetry Performance's anthology Poems for Ukraine. In early 2023, he brought out a short pamphlet called Snowdrops, featuring new poems on the Ukraine war, and in 2024 Two Years On, a new pamphlet on the ongoing conflict.
