After working as a psychiatric nurse, Ivor Southwood left the NHS in 2000 to study Literature and Media at Suffolk College and the University of East Anglia. During and since that time he has been a cappuccino frother, data enterer, trainee teacher, cashier, mail sorter, jobseeker, factory drone, warehouse operative, writer, street sweeper, audio tester and care worker. He is the author of the online journal Screened Out. This is his first assignment for Zero.