Jane McKie:  her first two collections of poetry were Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press) which won the Sundial /Scottish Arts Council award for best first book of 2007, and When the Sun Turns Green (Polygon, 2009). In 2011, she won the Edwin Morgan prize and published a pamphlet, Garden of Bedsteads, with Mariscat Press, a PBS Choice. Her most recent collections are Kitsune (Cinnamon Press, 2015), and From The Wonder Book of Would You Believe It (Mariscat, 2016). She is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the city’s Shore Poets group.

James McGonigal:  is a poet, biographer, and critic, formerly a teacher and teacher educator. He has co–edited anthologies of Scottish religious poetry, contemporary Scottish writing, and writing for children. Recent publications include Beyond the Last Dragon: A Life of Edwin Morgan (2012), and The Midnight Letterbox (2015), a selection of the poet’s correspondence 1950 –2010. His prize–winning pamphlets include Passage/An Pasaíste (2004) and Cloud Pibroch (2010), and his recent collection is The Camphill Wren (Red Squirrel Press, 2016).

Ian McDonough:  was brought up in Brora on the East Coast of Sutherland. He has published four collections of poetry, most recently A Witch Among The Gooseberries published by Mariscat in 2014. His work has appeared widely, including Poetry Review, Times Educational Supplement, Physics Review, New Writing Scotland and The Scotsman. A member of Shore Poets, he lives in Edinburgh with his partner and daughter. When not writing he works as a mediator and trainer.