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Stephen Keeler is an award-winning poet and memoirist whose work is widely published and anthologised. His poems appear in several Candlestick Press pamphlets and his small collection Scar Tissue won a Coast to Coast to Coast award in 2021. His memoir, 50 Words for Love in Swedish won the People’s Book Prize, 2022/23, and his small collection, They Spoke No English is published by Nine Pens. Stephen has held writing residencies in France and Sweden (where ‘Flametree’ was written). He now lives and writes in York.

Liz Kendall lives in Surrey where she works as a Shiatsu and massage practitioner and Tai Chi Qigong teacher. She studied English Literature at university and is currently collaborating on a book about food plants with an artist and ethno-botanist. She is also developing her own collections of poetry, essays and wild food recipes.

Nairn Kennedy is a Leeds-based poet whose work has appeared in Orbis, Ink Sweat & Tears, The London Magazine, Stand, The North, Spelt and Under the Radar. He’s been a runner-up in the Ilkley Literature Festival Competition, longlisted in the National Poetry Competition, and highly commended in the Bridport, amongst others.

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Brendan Kennelly, described by the Irish Times as ‘the balladeer of our age’, was born in County Kerry in 1936. He has published over 30 books of poetry, alongside plays, novels and criticism. For thirty years he was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. His poems are full of people and voices, and music is an abiding theme. His Selected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2011.

Jane Kenyon (1947 – 1995) was an American poet and translator. During her lifetime she published four collections of poetry and spent many years translating the work of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

Joanne Key is a poet and short story writer who lives in Cheshire. Her poetry has been published widely, both online and in print, and she has won a number of prizes including second prize in the National Poetry Competition and the Charles Causley Competition. In 2018 she won the Hippocrates Open Prize. In March 2019 she was announced as winner of the 2018 Mslexia Short Story Competition.