John Whitehouse is a retired academic, living in London. He suffers from aphasia after a major stroke. His work has been in: Interpreters’ House, Acumen, Frogmore Papers, Stand, French Literary Review, Cannons Mouth, London Grip, and various poetry anthologies, including Coal, commemorating the Miner’s Strike, and Tomorrow, with Creative Future. Also, short story anthologies - the Perito Prize, Joint first prize in the 2019 HISSAC writing competition. John received an Arts Council Grant which led to a first collection of Poetry, A Distant Englishness published by Clayhanger Press in 2024. The second collection After a Short Illness is to be published by Broken Sleep in 2026.

John Whitehouse's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.