Sigurður Pálsson: (1948–2017) was an Icelandic poet, author, and translator. He is particularly noted, among Icelandic writers, for his close links with France.  Pálsson began to publish in the 1980s, (poetry, novels, plays, and translations, mostly from French). He was made a knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 and of the Ordre du Mérite in 2007.  He was poet laureate Reykjavík from 1987–90. His 2007 memoir, Minnisbók, won the Icelandic Literary Award. He received the Jónas Hallgrímsson Award for his contribution to the Icelandic language and literary canon. On New Year’s Day 2017, he was made a knight of the Icelandic Order of the Falcon for his services to Icelandic literature and culture.

Óskar Árni Óskarsson: (b. 1950) has published a number of poetry and short-prose collections, in addition to translating poetry and short fiction by numerous authors, i.a., Raymond Carver, Richard Brautigan, and Carson McCullers. He has also published three books of translations of Japanese Haiku, as well as tackling the form in his own writing.

Kristín Ómarsdóttir: was born in Reykjavík, spent her first years in Copenhagen, and lived for most of her childhood in Hafnarfjörður. She wrote her first play in 1985, which won her first prize in a playwriting competition run by The National Theater of Iceland. She has worked as a writer since the middle of the 1980s and has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Prize. In 2000, her novel Elskan mín ég dey (My Love I’m Dying) was nominated for The Nordic Council Literature Prize. In 2005, she won Playwright of the Year at Gríman — The Icelandic Performing Arts Awards. For her poetry book Sjáðu fegurð þína (See Your Beauty) she was awarded Fjöruverðlaunin — the Icelandic Women’s Literary Prize in 2008. Apart from writing novels, poetry, and plays, she has exhibited her drawings and worked in the field of visual art.

Ragnar Helgi Ólafsson: is a poet, writer, and visual artist.  In 2015, he received the Tómas Guðmundsson Literary Prize for Poetry and in December 2017, he was nominated for Icelandic Literary Prize. Ragnar Helgi runs the publishing house Tunglið forlag, which publishes between 6 and 8 works of fiction and poetry each year on a full moon. He is one of the editors of Ljóðbréf — A journal of contemporary poetry. He teaches part-time at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and is part of the Kórus Collective Choir Project.