Toby Litt FRSL (born 1968) is an English writer[1] and academic based at the University of Southampton.
[2] He was educated at Bedford Modern School,[3] read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury.
[2] A short story by Litt was included in the anthology All Hail the New Puritans (2000), edited by Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited The Outcry (2001), Henry James's last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK.
"[5] Litt edited the 13th edition of New Writing (the British Council's annual anthology of the finest contemporary writing in fiction, non-fiction and poetry)[6] and is known for naming his books in alphabetical order.
[7] He is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London,[8] and led the campaign to get Arvind Mehrotra elected as the Oxford Professor of Poetry following Ruth Padel's resignation.