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Shazea Quraishi was born in Pakistan, grew up in Canada and lived in Spain before settling in London where she now works as a writer, translator and creative writing facilitator. Her poetry has appeared in The Guardian, The Financial Times, Poetry Review and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her latest collection is The Art of Scratching (Bloodaxe, 2015).

Genny Rahtz is a poet and creative writer who spent much of her time in Yorkshire, particularly Hull and York, before moving to Oxford. She worked for the Open University for many years. Her poetry collections include Sky Burial (Flux Gallery Press, 2010).

Kathleen Raine CBE (1908 – 2003) was a British poet, critic and scholar, and a founder member of the Temenos Academy. Her poetry won numerous awards and honours, including the Edna St. Vincent Millay Prize from the American Poetry Society. She published more than eleven volumes of poetry, as well as works of literary criticism and an autobiography. In 1992 she was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.

Vinode Ramgopal has written hundreds of poems and is in the process of publishing two collections: Beyond a Millenium and Til the Simple Moods are Torn.  He was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE) and Merton College, Oxford. He lives in the New York City area of the US and works in the financial sector.

William Brighty Rands (1823 – 1882) was a London-based poet of the Victorian era. He used various pen names and wrote a large number of nursery rhymes. He worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and was also a preacher at a chapel in Brixton. His works for children include Lilliput Lectures (1871) and Lilliput Legends (1872).

Natasha Rao is an American poet whose work has been published in numerous journals, including Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine and The Yale Review. Her debut collection Latitude (Copper Canyon, 2021) was chosen by Ada Limón as the winner of the 2021 APR/Honickman First Book Prize. She is currently co-editor of American Chordata.