Simon W. Hall:  is the author of The History of Orkney Literature (Birlinn), which was joint winner of the Saltire Society Prize for Scottish First Book of the Year in 2010, and has been translated into Japanese. He has translated Julia Donaldson’s children’s classic The Gruffalo, which appears as The Orkney Gruffalo (Itchy Coo). He is Principal Teacher of English in Kirkwall Grammar School, and has worked as a Scots Language Coordinator at Education Scotland. He lives in Orkney.

Yvonne Gray:  is a writer and musician who lives in Orkney. Her poems have been widely published and she has collaborated with visual artists, musicians, and other writers. Collections include In the Hanging Valley (Two Ravens Press, 2008) and Reflections, a collaboration with artist John Cumming (Hansel Cooperative Press and Woodend Publishing, 2012). Currently she is working on a set of songs and a libretto for an opera set in neolithic times.

Pippa Goldschmidt:  is the author of the novel The Falling Sky and the short story collection The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space (both published by Freight Books). Her poetry, stories and non–fiction have been published in a variety of places including Gutter, Lablit, the New York Times, and anthologies including Best American Science and Nature Writing 2014. She used to be an astronomer and in 2016 she was a winner of the MRC Suffrage Science award (for women in science) for her science communication activities.

John Glenday:  is the author of four poetry collections. The Apple Ghost (Peterloo Poets 1989) won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award and Undark  was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation for 1995. His third collection, Grain (Picador, 2009) was also a PBS Recommendation and shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and the Griffin International Poetry Prize. His fourth collection, The Golden Mean, (Picador 2015) won the Roehampton Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the Saltire Scottish Poetry Book of the Year.