Peter Finch: is a poet, author, and critic who lives in Cardiff, Wales. He is author of the hugely popular Real Cardiff books, published by Seren. The latest in the series, Real Cardiff; The Flourishing City, was published in May 2018. He is also the author of The Roots of Rock, from Cardiff to Mississippi and Back, which charts the evolution of rock and popular music from 1950s. His first collection of poetry in a decade, The Machineries of Joy is now available.

Tim Dooley: was reviews and features editor of Poetry London between 2008 and 2018. He is a tutor for The Poetry School in London. In 2019 and 2020 he was one of the judges of the John Pollard poetry prize at Trinity College, Dublin. His collections include Keeping Time, (Salt, 2008) and Weemoed (Eyewear, 2017), both Poetry Book Society Recommendations.

Kate Colby: was born in Boston and grew up in Massachusetts. She earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. She is the author of six books of poetry, including Fruitlands (2006), winner of the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award, Unbecoming Behavior (2008), and I Mean (2015).

Vyt Bakaitis: born in 1940, is an American translator, editor, and poet born in Lithuania and living in New York City. His first collection of poetry City Country (1991) was followed by Deliberate Proof (2010). His translations of Lithuanian poetry are significant; particularly the 20th–century anthology Breathing Free (2001), which he also edited.