Olivia Byard started to write and publish poems in Britain and abroad in the late eighties. In the early nineties she began creative writing workshops at the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. She also taught at the Reading University Department for Extended Education, was a part-time tutor for Stanford in Oxford and taught a workshop for OUDCE in Oxford.

Strange Horses is a poetry collection published in 2011.

David Calcutt is a playwright, poet and novelist. He has written many plays for the professional and community theatre, and for BBC Radio.

Matthew Caley’s Thirst (Slow Dancer, 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Since then he has been Poet-in-Residence at the Poetry Society café and commended (3rd and 2nd) in separate National Poetry Competitions. His second full-length collection, The Scene of My Former Triumph (Wrecking Ball Press, 2005), was followed by a third, Apparently (2010), from Bloodaxe Books. He has also co-edited Pop Fiction: The Song in Cinema with Stephen Lannin (Intellect, 2005). In a previous life – in Newcastle – he designed record sleeves including Prefab Sprout’s debut, Swoon. He now lives, works and writes in London.

Katie Campbell was born in Ottawa in 1957. She got an English degree from McGill University in Montreal and worked on documentaries in New York before moving to London. As a journalist she has written widely on arts and women's issues, her plays have been performed on stage and radio, and her novel, The Assumption of the Virgin, is scheduled for production as a feature film. She later returned to academe to study landscape history.