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CATHY BOLTON is a student on the MA Writing at Sheffield Hallam. She works for Commonword community publishers and is the acting Director of Manchester Literature Festival. Her poems have appeared in a wide range of anthologies and magazines including:Chroma,Magma,The RedWheelbarrow,The Rialto and Smith’s Knoll.

ALISON CLAYBOURNE is a southerner who has lived in Yorkshire for more than half her life. For too long, writing took third place to family and work commitments, but early retirement from teaching freed up her writing energy. She embarked on Sheffield Hallam’s MA Writing course in 2002, and submitted her poetry collection for the MA in May this year.

DAVID CONSTANTINE has published half a dozen volumes of poetry, most recently a Collected Poems (2004), all with Bloodaxe Books. He is also the author of two volumes of short stories, the second being Under the Dam (Comma Press 2005), and a translator of, among others, Hoelderlin, Goethe and Brecht. With his wife Helen he edits Modern Poetry in Translation.

CHRISTINE D’MELLO was born in India and grew up in the Dutch and British Caribbean. She later lived in France and the UK. The contrast between the expressions of these cultures has influenced her writing. Christine lives in London and is currently working on a collection of short stories and a novel.

ANDREA DOW is currently completing her MA in Poetry at Sheffield Hallam University. She was winner of the Ictus Award in 2002 and her pamphlet,Waiting was published by Mews Press in the same year. Her work also appears in the recent anthology, Ten Hallam Poets (also published by Mews press, 2005).

HELEN FARISH’S collection, Intimates (Cape 2005), won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was short-listed for the T S Eliot prize. In 2004 she was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, and she now teaches at Sheffield Hallam University. Her PhD (Oxford Brookes University, 2005) explored the relationship between poetry and gender and she continues to research and publish on this topic.

RACHEL F. GENN put her career in neuroscience on hold to complete the MA Writing in 2005. She received her Ph.D from Durham in 2000. She then took up a Royal Society Research Fellowship in the Department of Psychiatry at U.B.C.,Vancouver. From 2002-5 she worked at King’s College and the Institute of Psychiatry in London. She is currently finishing her first novel.

ROMESH GUNESEKERA was born in Sri Lanka and lives in London. His first novel, Reef, was shortlisted for the 1994 Booker Prize. His other books are: Heaven’s Edge (New York Times Notable Book 2003),The Sandglass (inaugural BBC Asia Award) and a collection of stories, Monkfish Moon (shortlisted for a CommonwealthWritersprize). Hislatestnovel,TheMatch,was published by Bloomsbury in March 2006. More at www.romeshgunesekera.com

JOHN HILTON – born, moved, schooled, delivered milk, fitted carpets, met wife, made children (3), back to school, wrote some poems. Cheerful (as a rule).

LESLEY JACKSON grew up in India and has also lived in Singapore and Hong Kong. She came to Sheffield for her MA in Writing, fell in love with the city and decided to stay. She teaches literacy, creative writing and horticulture. Her published work includes numerous articles in newspapers and magazines, three non-fiction books and some short stories. She is now working on a book about creative writing.

JACKIE KAY was born and brought up in Scotland. Her novel Trumpet won the Guardian Fiction Award. Her latest book of short stories,Wish IWas Here,was published recently to great acclaim. Her most recent poetry collection, Life Mask, was a Poetry Book Society recommendation. She lives in Manchester with her son.

MARINA LEWYCKA was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany, in 1946, and grew up in England. She read Philosophy and English at Keele and York Universities, and has worked as a sausage-twister, a waitress, a teacher, a public relations officer, and a freelance writer. Her previous publications include a number of non-fiction books on care of the elderly. She lives in Sheffield and teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.

NEIL REED spent his childhood in the company of crocodiles on the Zambezi River, and has often lived where the wild things are. He has had a variety of his work published in the UK, the USA, Canada, Sweden, Japan and Kenya. Since joining Sheffield Hallam’s MA Writing course, he has completed two children’s books and a third of an adult novel.

JOSEPH SHEEHAN grew up in a small town along the Mississippi River and spent his boyhood fishing for bluegills and catfish -and slapping mosquitoes. He later lived by the sea and surfed and made surfboards for many years. Now living in Lincolnshire with wife and son, he observes with keen interest the succession of weeds that flourish in his allotment, and now and again writes fiction.

KATHY TOWERS joined the Sheffield Hallam MA in 2005, specialising in poetry. In the same year she won the annual Ictus prize which led to the publication by Mews Press of her pamphlet ‘Slow Time’. She lives in the Peak District with her husband and two daughters.