Chaim Lewis was a writer, poet and a teacher. He was born in Soho in 1910, the child of Russian immigrant parents. In 1935 he married Ada Malka Ferber, daughter of Zvi Hirsch Ferber, the rabbi of Dean Street shul, Soho’s most famous synagogue.

From Soho to Jerusalem is a poetry collection published in 2000.

Gwyneth Lewis was Wales’s National Poet from 2005 to 2006, the first writer to be given the Welsh laureateship. Her first six books of poetry in Welsh and English were followed by Chaotic Angels (2005) from Bloodaxe, which brings together the poems from her English collections, Parables & Faxes, Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum, and by A Hospital Odyssey (2010), and Sparrow Tree (2011), winner of the Roland Mathias Poetry Award (Wales Book of the Year) in 2012. Her other books include Sunbathing in the Rain: A Cheerful Book about Depression (Flamingo, 2002) and Two in a Boat: A Marital Voyage (Fourth Estate, 2005) and The Meat Tree: new stories from the Mabinogion (Seren, 2010). Her Welsh collection, Y Llofrudd Iaith (Barddas, 2000), won the Welsh Arts Council Book of the Year Prize, and her last English collection, Keeping Mum was shortlisted for the same prize. Both Zero Gravity and Keeping Mum were Poetry Book Society Recommendations. Gwyneth Lewis composed the words on the front of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff, opened in 2004. She lives in Cardiff.

Jenny Lewis trained as a painter at the Ruskin School of Art before reading English at Oxford University and gaining an MPhil in Poetry from the University of South Wales. She is a poet, playwright and songwriter, specialising in cross-arts collaborations of poetry, music, dance and visual art. She teaches poetry at Oxford University and is a Core Writing Tutor at Pegasus Theatre, Oxford.

Joanne Limburg was born in London in 1970, and studied Philosophy at Cambridge. She has since gained an MA in Psychoanalytic Studies, and now works as an Associate Lecturer for the Open University. She won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry in 1998, and her first book, Femenismo (Bloodaxe, 2000), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Her second collection, Paraphernalia (Bloodaxe, 2007), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her latest book is The Woman Who Thought Too Much (Atlantic Books, 2010), a memoir about OCD, anxiety and poetry.