Sheree Mack is a freelance writer and lecturer for the Open University with a PhD in creative writing at Newcastle University.

Family Album is a poetry collection published in 2011.

Mairi MacInnes was born in 1925 in Co. Durham and educated in Yorkshire and at Somerville College, Oxford. In 1954 she married the American scholar and writer John McCormick and went to live with him in West Berlin, then an enclave in Communist East Germany, and from 1959 to 1988 in America, except for years in Mexico and Spain. She and her husband now live in York, England. They have four children and two grandchildren. In the US, she published two collections, and won National Endowment in the Arts, New Jersey Arts and Ingram-Merrill Fellowships.

Gérard Macé was born in Paris in 1946. He is a poet, essayist and translator. He published his first book Le jardin des langues in 1974 with Gallimard, at the age of 50. His work challenges the barriers between poetry and the essay. This play between and within genres is essential to his writing – which has been called essay merveilleux – and derives from a questioning of language in its broadest sense.

Smoked Meat was Rowena MacDonald's debut collection of short stories. It was published in 2011, and was shortlisted for the 2012 Edge Hill Prize.