Alan Gillis:  has published four poetry books with The Gallery Press: Scapegoat (2014), Here Comes the Night (2010), Hawks and Doves (2007) and Somebody, Somewhere (2004). A Selected Poems for the USA is published by Wake Forest University Press: Scapegoat and Other Poems (2016). He was winner of the Strong Award for Best First Collection in Ireland, and has been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot prize, and for the Irish Times Poetry Now Award. He was selected as a ‘Next Generation Poet’ by the Poetry Book Society in the UK in 2014. From 2010 – 2015 he was editor of Edinburgh Review.

Valerie Gillies:  is the author of eight books of poetry. She received the Creative Scotland Award in 2005; she was the Edinburgh Makar from 2005 to 2008, and an Associate of Harvard University from 2009 to 2015. She facilitates the Creative Writing groups at Maggie’s Cancer Centre, Edinburgh.  Her most recent book is The Cream of the Well: New and Selected Poems, Luath, Edinburgh, 2015.

Miriam Gamble:  originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, has been living in Scotland since 2010; she lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Edinburgh. Her collections are The Squirrels Are Dead (2010), which won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2011, and Pirate Music (2014), both published by Bloodaxe Books.

Anne Frater:  is a poet from the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. She chooses to write in Scottish Gaelic, her first language and the language of the community in which she lives. Having spent several years in Glasgow, first as a student and latterly working in the media, she moved back to Lewis in 1999 to take up a post as lecturer in Gaelic at Lews Castle College, part of the University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI).