Anna Avebury:I began writing poetry when I had to give up full-time English teaching through ill health and have not had many poems published so far. One of my poems was included in the summer edition of Connections this year and another was selected for the Ver Poets Open Competition anthology, Vision On 2004.
Jo Bell, archaeologist and prize-winning poet, lives, works and performs across the Midlands. Her work has been published in magazines including Envoi and Raw Edge. Jo is a member of Inktank.
Rachel N Byers: I am a soon to be a graduate from Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences. My works have appeared in literary journals such as Fusion Literary Magazine and Canvas Creative Arts Magazine.
Claire Crowther's first pamphlet collection "The Glass Harmonica" is available from Flarestack.
Nina Dietrich: I was born in Germany in 1981 and have studied Creative Writing in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. I have just completed an M. A. in American Literature at the University of Kent. My nonfiction (some in English, some in German) has been included in a number of German publications.
Noel Edward writes: I was born in the west of Ireland in 1975. I have lived in London and New York for a few years and am now living in Galway City. I went to college for three years and studied English and Philosophy, but before I sat my finals I left for some reason; I hope someday I will figure that out. I started writing poetry at 23. I think I'm getting better at it.
Natalie Ford's work had appeared in several journals in the U.S. and U.K. & has received recognition in the Bucks County Poet Laureate contest in Pennsylvania (1997 & 2001). She lives in York.
Jessica Harman, born Montreal, lives in Massachusetts. One-time editor of Matrix magazine, she works at Harvard Medical School. Flarestack will publish her first collection this winter.
Jeremy Hilton edits FIRE magazine. His collections include Shadow Engineering (Galloping Dog Press), Metronome (Arc) and One + One, with Owen Davies (Rivelin Grapheme).
Kathleen Kenny is a co-organiser of the Blue Room performance platform for new writers in Newcastle upon Tyne. Her previous publications include Sex & Death (Diamond Twig) and Keening (Sand Press). New collection Sandblasting, due 2006.
John Kinory: I have been a photographer, photography teacher, physics teacher and translator. Most of my published photography was included in educational books, and some in solo and group exhibitions and in photography and general art magazines. My professional translation work is mainly technical. I have lived in four countries, and before moving to Oxfordshire lived in London for many years.
Mark Leech has had almost 50 poems in a range of magazines. Pipers' Ash published his collection of translations The Anglo Saxon Elegies in 2004. He recently won The Times Stephen Spender Memoral Trust Prize for poetry translation.
Gill McEvoy: Born London, graduated from Trinity College, Dublin. Raised 3 children, cared for husband who died in 1991 after 12 years of illness. Began to write seriously 1990, number of short stories published between 1990 & 2000. Ovarian cancer diagnosed 2000, fought back, published a great deal of poetry since. This all sounds grim, I know, but I am actually a happy woman who makes the most of all life has to offer! Poems published in or accepted for future publication by lots of magazines. 2nd prize for humorous poetry in the Southport International Competition.
Maureen McManus: I've had poems published in Orbis, Poetry Nottingham International, etc, and recently read in public at the Battersea Arts Centre.
Mary Maher has work in the Forward and Others anthologies, and three collections to date: two with Stride and one with Odyssey. Seventh short story accepted last year.
Pat Morgan: I am an artist and as well as exhibiting, nation-wide but mainly in the West Country, where I lived for 20 years, tutored adults in art, illuminated calligraphy and guitar. I am also a professional Reflexologist. I began writing poetry in 1997 when I was too ill to pick up a paint brush and had to move back to a city. I am now painting and writing.
Paul Neads co-founded (& was original co-host of) Manchester's open mic poetry night, Per Verse, and is editor of The Ugly Tree poetry 'zine. His poetry has appeared in numerous magazines & anthologies, and he can only recall 3 which have ceased publication after including his work. He now tends to concentrate on exhibiting artwork, short story writing & occasionally cropping up on the telly
Jessica Phillips: Born in Luton in 1985 and currently a student of the University of Liverpool studying Archaeology and English, I live with my cat (Merlin), my snake (Oroborus) and long-suffering boyfriend (Aaron) who "doesn't understand" poetry. I have no idea what I want to do with my life, and I don't particularly care.
Ivan Silverberg: Currently a teaching assistant at a Chicago-land school for children with special needs. I aim to pursue graduate study in the field of education beginning next Fall. However, Italy will always remain an inspiration and a place to which I eagerly return. I have published poetry in the University of Illinois' Montage Literary Magazine as well as Fusion Literary Magazine (www.indiana.edu/~fusion/ fall2003/authors/silverberg.html).
Elena Tincu-Straton was born & brought up in Romania, educated in Bucharest (BA in Mathematics) and London (BA in English Literature, Modernity & Representation). Influenced by Romanian & Russian poets, she lives in London.
George Wallace, first Poet Laureate of Suffolk County (Long Island) is editor of Poetrybay (www.poetrybay.com), Polarity (www.poembeat.com) and Long Island Quarterly. Recent books are Burn my Heart in Wet Sand (Troubador), Fifty Love Poems (La Finestra Editrice), Swimming through Water (La Finestra Editrice), Greatest Hits (Puddinghouse Press) and Without Benefit of Men (Chlemsyia Zhurnal). He regularly performs his poetry with David Amram and other jazz artists, and throughout the US and Europe.
Rebecca Warren: I am 26 years of age, studying Creative Writing with the University of Lancaster by distance learning and have been published in Birmingham Words, Raw Edge, Candelabrum & Coffee House Poetry magazines.
Colin Watts: Age 61, community worker & Creative Writing tutor. Poems published extensively, and broadcast on BBC Radio Merseyside. Self-published Singing the City, 1999. Getting The Hang Of It published by Driftwood, 2002. Residencies: Liverpool Rope Walks, 2000; Kirkby Library, 2001. Member of Dead Good Poets.
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