Vince Laws is 46 and has lived in Brighton for 20 years. He's sub-edited the local LGBT magazine, Gscene, for 6 or 7 years. In 2004 he published a poetry pamphlet called 'Beckham By the Balls'. He was diagnosed HIV+ on his 43rd birthday, an event celebrated in the poem 'Diagnosed'. He is currently working on a 21st century queer Faust in which an HIV+ man sells his soul to the Devil in return for perfect health, the voice of a poet, and to die at his happiest moment. He has also started producing visual representations of his poetry using collage, print and paint. He lives with his heartner, artist Ole Skauge, and Badger the dog.