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Arlene Ang 

Arlene Ang serves as staff editor for The Pedestal Magazine and Press 1. She lives in Spinea, Italy. More of her work may be viewed at www.leafscape.org.

Susan Barker

Susan Barker grew up in east London. She taught English in Japan for two years before returning to the UK to study for an MA in Novel Writing at Manchester University. She has written two novels Sayonara Bar (2005) and The Orientalist and the Ghost (2008), both published by Doubleday. Since 2007 she has divided her time between Colorado and Beijing.

Gary Dexter

Gary Dexter is the author of the essay collection Why Not Catch-21?, the novel The Oxford Despoiler and the forthcoming anthology Poisoned Pens. He writes for the Sunday Telegraph.

Joe Dunthorne

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. His debut novel, Submarine, is published by Penguin. His debut poetry pamphlet will be published by Faber in early 2010. He co-organises Homework, a night of literary miscellany, monthly at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club. He is a striker for the England Writers’ Football Team. There is no Welsh Writers’ Team. Now twenty-seven, he lives in London.

Sara Freeman

Sara Freeman is a Canadian living in London. Occupation: teacup-stacker, photocopier, legal clerk. When she is not dutifully making single-to-double-sided copies of large court bundles, she is an avid rider of the city’s buses. She hopes one day, soon, to throw some of her stories together and get people to call it a ‘collection of short stories.’

Howie Good

Howie Good is a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz and the author of eight poetry chapbooks, including Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks and Love Is a UFO (2009) from Pudding House. His full-length book of poetry, Lovesick, is due from Press Americana this summer.

Simon Goodall

Simon Goodall studied history at the University of East Anglia. Now working in local government he maintains an interest in local history and the built environment.

Ronald Grover

Ronald Grover was born in Stockport, studied at Oxford, and worked for a number of years as a lawyer in the City. He resigned at the end of 2008 in order to work on his first novel.

John Hegley

John Hegley is a performing writer, born in Newington Green, educated in Luton, Bristol and Bradford University. Has produced ten books, two CDs, one mug. Most recent publication: The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet, published by Donut Press. Dog ran away 1985.

Claudia Herbreteau

Claudia Herbreteau recently graduated from Camberwell College of Arts with a BA in Illustration. Originally from Paris, she will be pursuing an MA in Printmaking and Illustration there next year. She works with various materials such as drawing inks, graphite pen, Indian ink… as well as different printmaking techniques such as monoprinting, screenprinting and dry point etching. Claudia gets her inspiration from photography (Stephanie Schneider…), cinema (Jaques Tati, George Melies, Emir Kusturica, Jean Cocteau…), and whatever surrounds her in everyday life.

Luke Kennard

Luke Kennard won an Eric Gregory Award in 2005 and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. His new book, The Migraine Hotel, is available now from Salt. He is regional editor for Succour, a biannual journal of new writing and visual art. His criticism appears in Poetry London and the Times Literary Supplement. He also lectures in creative writing at the University of Birmingham.

Kate Kilalea 

Originally from South Africa, Kate Kilalea moved to London in 2005 to study an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. Her first collection, One Eye’d Leigh is published through Carcanet.

Roddy Lumsden 

Roddy Lumsden’s most recent books are Mischief Night – New & Selected Poems (Bloodaxe, 2004) and Third Wish Wasted (Bloodaxe, 2009). He teaches for The Poetry School in London and recently compiled Identity Parade, a major anthology of recent British and Irish poetry due in 2010.

Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr is best known for his role in one of the UK’s most influential bands of all time, The Smiths. He went on to form Electronic with New Order’s Bernard Sumner and has worked with The Pretenders, The The, Modest Mouse, and Johnny Marr & The Healers. He is now a member of The Cribs.

Helen Mort

Helen Mort’s latest pamphlet, A pint for the ghost has just been published by Tall-Lighthouse Press. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 2007 and the Manchester Young Writer Prize in 2008.

Janet Olearski

Janet Olearski is a London-born writer based in Abu Dhabi. She is an established textbook author, and abridges classic novels for the ELT market… to the dismay of many a deceased writer. ‘Swimmers’ is from an unpublished collection entitled The Older Short-Haired Female and Other Stories. She is currently redrafting her first novel, Autumn in Namisa. Read more on www.authorsites.co.uk/janetolearski

Michael Spring

Michael Spring has been a director of a PR firm, has won awards as a copywriter in advertising, and has driven into Regine’s night club (up the front stairs). He loves horse racing, books and his family, but perhaps not in that order. Brittle Star, Fieldstone Review, Fifth Wednesday and Radio Ulster are among those who have published and broadcast his work. He lives in London.

Jon Stone

Jon Stone was born in Derby and now lives in Whitechapel, where he is one of the editors of pocket arts journal Fuselit. His writing has most recently appeared in the anthologies City State: New London Poetry and Stop Sharpening Your Knives Volume 3 and he maintains a site for other minor writing projects at www.bandijcat.com.

Tim Turnbull

Tim Turnbull lives in highland Perthshire. He’s a Libra from Scarborough, North Yorkshire and he loves to find the essence from within. His latest collection Caligula on Ice and other poems is available from Donut Press.

Gordon Weetman

Gordon Weetman is a postgraduate student from Oxfordshire. A fan of Borges, Cortazar and Bret Easton Ellis, Gordon attends Andrew Motion’s writing course at Royal Holloway, London. He is currently working on a book of short stories.