is an Architect, Chief Executive of Mouskos LLP, and founder of the JM Mouskos Foundation which supports initiatives for young people in the Arts, Health, and Education.  He is chairman and founder of The Breathing Life Trust, Breathing Life Lung Centre for Children, and the Art for Life Prize.  An international poet, mountaineer, and film maker, his interests spread across corporate business, the arts and the natural world.

is a writer and mixed media artist who grew up on Cliff Island, Maine.  Her work has been published or is forthcoming in Starvations and Blinders Literary Journal.  She is currently a MFA candidate at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

was born in Rochester, New York, and raised in Brooklyn.  He began his literary career during the San Francisco Beat and Berkeley Renaissance period in North Beach, California, and his work was included in the anthology, The New American Poetry 1945–1960.  He is the author of over 40 volumes of poetry, including Arrows: Selected Poetry 1957–1992, No Eyes: Lester Young (2000), Beat Thing (2004), and David’s Copy (2005).  His most recent book, When I Was A Poet, number 60 in the Pocket Poet’s Series published by City Lights Booksellers and Publishers, came out in 2011.  In 2008, he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award and was also given the Bay Area Guardian’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 2012 was nominated for the Northern California Book Award in Poetry.  He is now performing with his wife, poet Julie Rogers, in the Bay Area and elsewhere.  Visit the website at www.meltzerville.com. 

is a writer, photographer, and musician based in York (UK).  He has been published widely in the UK, Europe, and the US.  His fifth poetry collection, The Ringmaster’s Apprentice, will be published by Valley Press in 2014.  By day he is Programme Leader for English and Writing at Leeds Trinity University.