John Glenday is the author of four highly regarded poetry collections, including Grain, shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, and The Golden Mean, winner of the Roehampton Poetry Prize. His Selected Poems was published by Picador in 2020. He has also collaborated on limited-edition art books and pamphlets, and served as a judge for several major literary awards. An experienced mentor, he has led online poetry sessions for the Poetry Society for many years.

In 2008, Jen Hadfield was the youngest winner of the T.S.Eliot Poetry Prize. Since then, she has worked as a poet, writing tutor and artist. Storm Pegs – A Life Made in Shetland, her first non-fiction title, was published by Picador in 2024, along with her Selected Poems. She is a recipient of a Windham Campbell Prize for Literature and lives in Shetland. 

Palestinian-American writer, editor and educator Naomi Shihab Nye grew up in St. Louis, Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she graduated from Trinity University and continues to live.  On faculty at Texas State University, she has been Young People’s Poet Laureate for the U.S. (Poetry Foundation), poetry editor for the New York Times magazine, and The Texas Observer, and a visiting writer in hundreds of schools and communities all over the world. Her books include Grace Notes (Poems About Families), Everything Comes Next, The Tiny Journalist, Voices in the Air, Sitti’s Secrets, Habibi, This Same Sky, & The Tree is Older than You Are: Poems & Paintings from Mexico. Her volume 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, was a finalist for the National Book Award. The Turtle of Oman and The Turtle of Michigan have both been part of the Little Read program, North Carolina. She has received the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets, the Texas Writer Award 2024, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Texas Institute of Letters, the Arab American National Museum, and the National Book Critics Circle. Her forthcoming collection of poems is called Sidekick.