SHERI BENNING grew up on a small farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. She has since travelled widely while attaining several academic degrees. She published two books of poetry in Canada, Thin Moon Psalm (Brick Books, 2007) and Earth After Rain (Thistledown Press, 2001). Her poetry, essays and fiction have also appeared in Canadian literary journals and anthologies. At work on new poems and a novel, Benning divides her time between Glasgow, Scotland, and a farm near Manitou Lake, Saskatchewan.
TARA BERGIN was born in Dublin in 1974. She is currently studying at Newcastle University for a PhD on Ted Hughes’s translations of János Pilinszky. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Review, Poetry London, Modern Poetry in Translation and PN Review.
DAN BURT was born in South Philadelphia in 1942. He attended state schools and a local catholic college before reading English at Cambridge. He graduated from Yale Law School and practised law in the United States, United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia until moving to London in 1994 and becoming a British citizen. He is an honorary Fellow of St John’s College Cambridge and lives and writes in London. His poetry publications include the Lintott pamphlets Searched for Text (2008) and Certain Windows (2011), and Cold Eye, a poetry and image collaboration with the artist Paul Hodgson (Marlborough, 2010).
JOHN DENNISON was born in Sydney in 1978. He grew up in Tawa, New Zealand, and studied English literature at Victoria University of Wellington and the University of Otago. He recently completed a PhD at the University of St Andrews on the prose poetics of Seamus Heaney and now lives with his family in Wellington.
WILL EAVES was born in Bath in 1967. He is the author of three novels, The Oversight (2001), Nothing To Be Afraid Of (2005) and This Is Paradise (2012, forthcoming), all published by Picador. His chapbook of poems, Small Hours, appeared in 2006. For many years he was the Arts Editor of the Times Literary Supplement. He now teaches in the Department of English at the University of Warwick. His first collection, Sound Houses (Carcanet), appeared in 2011.
MINA GORJI was born in Tehran and grew up in London. She is a lecturer in the English Faculty at Cambridge University and a fellow of Pembroke College. Her published work includes a study of John Clare and essays on awkwardness, mess, weeds and rudeness. Her poems have appeared, among other places, in Magma, PN Review, The London Magazine and The International Literary Quarterly.
OLI HAZZARD was born in Bristol in 1986. His poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in magazines and anthologies including The Forward Book of Poetry 2010, The Best British Poetry 2011 and The Salt Book of Younger Poets. He studied English at University College London and is currently a graduate student at Bristol University.
JULITH JEDAMUS grew up in the mountains west of Boulder, Colorado. For the past sixteen years she has lived in London. She began writing novels, switched to short stories, and now writes verse. Her first collection, The Cull, will be published by Carcanet in 2012.
EVAN JONES was born in Toronto and now lives in Britain. He has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester and has taught at York University in Toronto, and in Britain at the University of Bolton and Liverpool John Moores University. His first collection, Nothing Fell Today But Rain (Fitzhenry & Whiteside Ltd, 2003), was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. His second collection, Paralogues, is forthcoming with Carcanet.
Originally from South Africa, KATHARINE KILALEA moved to London in 2005 to study for an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first book, One Eye’d Leigh (Carcanet, 2009), was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award and longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize for writers under thirty. She works part-time as a publicist for an architecture practice in London.
HENRY KING was born in Bedford in 1987, and grew up in France and Surrey. He now lives in Glasgow, where he is studying for a PhD in English Literature at the University of Glasgow. In 2007, his family moved to Vancouver, which he occasionally visits.
JANET KOFI-TSEKPO’s writing has appeared in anthologies and journals, including Ten (Bloodaxe, 2010), Red (Peepal Tree, 2010), Bittersweet (The Women’s Press, 1998), Wasafiri and Poetry Review. She was one of the participants on The Complete Works programme run by Spread the Word, and lives in London.
JEE LEONG KOH is the author of three books of poems, including his most recent Seven Studies for a Self Portrait. Born and raised in Singapore, he read English at Oxford University, took his MFA in Creative Writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and now lives in New York City.
WILLIAM LETFORD lives in Stirling, Scotland, and works as a roofer. He has received a New Writer’s Award from the Scottish Book Trust, was the recipient of an Edwin Morgan Travel Bursary from the Arts Trust of Scotland, and has an M.Litt. (Distinction) in Creative Writing from Glasgow University.
VINCENZ SERRANO is working on a PhD in Creative Writing and English and American Studies at the University of Manchester. Before this, he taught in Ateneo de Manila University, where he was coordinator for undergraduate studies in literature. His book, The Collapse of What Separates Us, was published by High Chair in 2010. It won first prize for poetry in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature (Philippines) in 2009.
HELEN TOOKEY was born near Leicester in 1969. She studied philosophy and literature at university and has worked in academic publishing, as a university teacher, and as a freelance editor. Her short collection Telling the Fractures, a collaboration with photographer Alan Ward, was published by Axis Projects in 2008.
LUCY TUNSTALL was born in London in 1969 and now lives in Bristol. She is a doctoral student at the University of Exeter working on the poetry of Dickinson, Moore, Bishop and Plath. Her poems have appeared in PN Review.
ARTO VAUN was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has attended Harvard University, Glasgow University, and the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has contributed to The Verb (BBC 3), and is currently a contributing editor for Glimpse Journal. He has taught writing, literature and critical thinking. He is also a songwriter and musician, performing under the monikers Mishima USA and The Kent 100s. His first collection, Capillarity, was published by Carcanet in 2010; his next collection of poems is entitled Isinglass.
DAVID C. WARD is an historian at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, where he has curated exhibitions on Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln, among others. With graduate degrees from Warwick and Yale Universities, he is the author of Charles Willson Peale, Art and Selfhood in the Early Republic (2004) and (with Jonathan D. Katz) Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture (2010). He is currently working on an exhibi-tion called Poetic Likeness: Portraits of American Poets that will open at the NPG in Autumn 2012. His pamphlet of poems Internal Difference was published by Lintott Press in 2011.
RORY WATERMAN was born in Belfast, grew up mostly in rural Lincolnshire, and currently lives in Bristol. His poems have appeared in Stand, Agenda, the Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, The Bow-Wow Shop and various other publications, and he co-edits New Walk Magazine.
JAMES WOMACK (Cambridge, 1979) studied Russian and English at university, and has lived in St Petersburg, Moscow and Conil de la Frontera. He currently lives in Madrid, where he teaches English Literature at the Universidad Complutense and with his wife runs Nevsky Prospects, a publishing house which produces Spanish translations of Russian literature. His first collection will be published by Carcanet in 2012.
ALEX WYLIE was born in Blackpool in 1980 and grew up on Lancashire’s Fylde coast. In 2004 he moved to Belfast to undertake doctoral research at Queen’s University, writing a thesis on T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill. He currently teaches in the School of English at Queen’s University Belfast and is co-editor of the online magazine Poetry Proper.