Geoffrey Heptonstall is an English writer based in Cambridge. He has taught Writing as adjunct lectuerer at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge and at various locations for the Open College of the Arts. 

He has published four volumes of poetry and a novel.  He has contributed to about a dozen anthologies of poetry or fiction. Other writing includes a number of plays staged, broadcast, workshopped  and/or published. He has written regularly for Contemporary Review, Litro, The London Magazine, London Progressive Journal, Open Democracy, and Pennsylvania Literary Journal.