Rachel McCrum:  is a poet and performer who has worked across Scotland, Montreal, Haiti, South Africa, Greece, and Northern Ireland. She won the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for her first pamphlet The Glassblower Dances in 2012; was the first ever BBC Scotland Poet In Residence in 2015 and was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship in 2016. She was a founding member of Stewed Rhubarb Press and the SHIFT/ Poetry Collective; was the Broad of Rally and Broad (The List Hot 100 #12 in 2015) and currently manages the cinepoems project with Glasgow poet Calum Rodger and Montreal poet Jonathan Lamy. She currently lives in Montreal and is working on her first collection, The First Blast To Awaken Women Degenerate, out with Freight in 2017.

Andy Jackson:  is from Salford but has lived in Scotland for 25 years. He has published two collections of poetry via Red Squirrel Press, The Assassination Museum (2010) and A Beginner’s Guide To Cheating (2015). He has edited several anthologies including pop–culture collections Split Screen, Double Bill and also Whaleback City: The Poetry of Dundee and its Hinterland (with W.N. Herbert). He co–edits the poetry projects Scotia Extremis (with Brian Johnstone) and New Boots and Pantisocracies (with W.N. Herbert).

Diana Hendry:  has published six poetry collections, including The Seed–Box Lantern: New & Selected Poems (Mariscat Press). She’s published more than 40 books for children. A collection of adult short stories is due out this year. From 1997– 8 she was writer in residence at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary; in 2007 she was awarded a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship and from 2008 –10 was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Edinburgh University. Currently she is co–editor of New Writing Scotland.

Iyad Hayatleh:  is a Palestinian poet and translator who was born and grew up in Syria. He has lived in Glasgow since 2000, and has taken part in many cultural events and translation and poetry workshops giving many readings in the UK including the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He collaborated with poet Tessa Ransford, on a two–way translation project for a book Rug of a Thousand Colours, published by Luath Press, 2012.