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Helen Ashley writes: 'Recently re-married and retired, I now have the time for the reading and writing I've tried to do for the past twenty years. I've had a dozen or so poems published in various magazines and anthologies, but no collection yet.'

Gerard Benson writes for both children and adults. He was The Wordsworth Trust’s first poet-in-residence, and is currently Bradford’s Poet Laureate. He is a winner of the Signal Poetry Award and is currently preparing a collection (for adults) with Smith/Doorstop for publication in 2010.

Tommy Curran is native of Dublin living in rural Cork. He has been writing poetry for many years and is working on a first collection, hopefully publishing in 2010.

John Denham - Very little is known about John Denham: he may not have a past.

Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk and now lives in Liverpool. Her pamphlet collection 'Keeping Houston Time' was published by Slow Dancer Press. Her first full length collection is forthcoming with Flambard Press in 2010.

Richard W. Halperin is widely published in journals and anthologies in Ireland and the UK. His first collection, Anniversary, will be published in 2010 by Salmon.

Michael Hood is an independent scholar and author of Cranberry Smoke (poetry). Michael recently had his poetry presented in Poetrybay (2008) and The Litchfield Review (2009), and has poems forthcoming in The Tulane Review and So To Speak: A Feminist journal of Language and Art. He is into motor scooting his motor scooter, "Scoot," and paddling his kayak, "Yak-Yak."

Kathryn Jacobs - Kathryn Jacobs is a medievalist-turned-poet with a chapbook called Advice Column out at Finishing Line Press (2008), and a doctorate from Harvard. A professor at Texas A & M – C, she has published over a hundred poems in the last three years, at journals like The New Formalist, Measure, and Acumen. She has also written a book on medieval marriage contracts and sixteen articles.

Chris Lloyd writes: “I am a twenty-one year old English literature student, just finishing my BA, moving on to do an MA in the Autumn. I am studying at Goldsmiths and live in Brockley, South London“.

Maria McCarthy writes poetry as a distraction from writing fiction, and fiction as a distraction from writing poetry. She has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Kent. Her website is
www.medwaymaria.co.uk

Marjorie Mitchell writes: “Born and bred in Dundee I now live in Edinburgh. I have been writing poetry for about 7 years with some success in a number of poetry competitions. My first collection “Brussel Sprouts for Tea” was published in 2008. I am currently working towards a second.”

Katrina Naomi's first full collection 'The Girl with the Cactus Handshake', for which she received an Arts Council England writer's award, will be published by Templar Poetry in October 2009. She was brought up in Margate and lives in south London.

Caroline Natzler’s first collection Design Fault was published by Flambard Press in 2001, and a second, Smart Dust (Grenadine Press) appeared in spring 2009. Caroline teaches creative writing in London.

Peter Phillips is a North London poet. His last collection was “Wide Skies, Salt and Best Bitter”, published by Hearing Eye.

Michael Pickering spent the early part of his life in England, graduating from Oxford University. He lived for a short while in Italy and in Canada, and for a much longer time in Finland. He sometimes writes in, and translates from, Italian and Finnish.

Kate White lives and works in London. Her poetry has appeared in South Bank Poetry magazine and is forthcoming in Smiths Knoll

Mary Wight lives in Edinburgh and has written sporadically for years, while working as a bookseller, librarian and counsellor. She has two adult daughters and is about to throw herself into a year of unknown agonies and hopefully a few ectstacies, beginning an MSc in creative writing at Edinburgh University. She had a pamphlet published, Snapshots (Scottish Borders Council 2001, writing as Mary Russell).

Jim C. Wilson’s poetry and prose have been published widely for a quarter of a century. He was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow from 2001 to 2007 and teaches creative writing at Edinburgh University. His latest collection is Paper Run (Mariscat Press).

Philip Wilson is completing a doctorate in Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia and has published poems widely in magazines. A pamphlet, Blessed and unbroken by the fall, is available from Ninth Arrondissement Press. He has recently begun to play the clarinet again and enjoys reading noir fiction.

Jessica Kilburn (artwork) was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, and now lives in London, working as a freelance writer and illustrator. She read English at Merton College, Oxford, and History of Art at the University of Glasgow. She especially admires the illustrations of the contemporary artists, Mark Hearld and Emily Sutton, and the illustrated columns of Maira Kalman (‘The Principles of Uncertainty’) which appear in The New York Times