Amanda White is a writer and creative practitioner.

Stepping on the Cracks is a poetry collection published in 1999. Her second collection, Appearing Soon , was published by Flambard Press in 2005.

Christiania Whitehead was born in 1969 in Newcastle, wher her poetry was first published by Bloodaxe in its Bossy Parrot (1987) anthology as a prizewinner of the Evening Chronicle Poetry Competition, and later in Carol Rumens' New Women Poets (1990). She studied English to postgraduate level at Magdalen College, Oxford, and now teaches at the University of Warwick. She is currently writing a book on medieval allegory. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. Her first collection The Garden of Slender Trust (Bloodaxe Books, 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Elaine Whitesides was born in Cullercoats and left to attend the University of Nottingham at 18. She worked as an English teacher in the East Midlands before retiring.

James Knox Whittet’s poems have won the George Crabbe Memorial Award three times and his poetry pamphlet, Seven Poems for Engraved Fishermen (Meniscus, 2004), was shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Award from the National Library of Scotland.

Susan Wicks has published three books of poetry with Bloodaxe Books: House of Tongues (2011), De-iced (2007), and Night Toad: New & Selected Poems (2003), which included a new collection with selections from three earlier books published by Faber: Singing Underwater, winner of the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize; Open Diagnosis, which was one of the Poetry Society’s New Generation Poets titles; and The Clever Daughter, a Poetry Book Society Choice which was shortlisted for both T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Both House of Tongues and Night Toad are Poetry Book Society Recommendations.

She has also published two novels, The Key (Faber, 1997) and Little Thing (Faber, 1998), a short memoir, Driving My Father (Faber, 1995), and a collection of short fiction, Roll Up for the Arabian Derby (Bluechrome, 2008). Her translation of Valérie Rouzeau’s Cold Spring in Winter (Arc, 2009) won the Scott-Moncrieff Prize for French Translation, and was shortlisted for both the International Griffin Poetry Prize and the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize.

Born and raised in Kent, she lives in Tunbridge Wells, and is currently teaching at Goldsmiths’ College, London.