Hannah Lowe was born in Ilford to an English mother and Jamaican-Chinese father. She has lived in London, Brighton and Santa Cruz, California. She studied American Literature at the University of Sussex and has a Masters degree in Refugee Studies. She has worked as a teacher of literature and creative writing, and is currently studying for a PhD. Her pamphlet The Hitcher (The Rialto, 2011) was widely praised. Her first book-length collection Chick (Bloodaxe Books, 2013) is shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

Yann Lovelock is a poet, editor and reviewer whose writing has appeared from small presses and in little magazines. He is associated in particular with IRON Press, Nick Toczek’s The Little Word Machine, and Ian Robinson’s Oasis, all of which he helped edit.

In Europe he served as vice-chair of Freundkreis Poesie Europe, and was English editor of its literary annual. As a critic and translator, his main specialisation was in the poetry of the Low Countries and he was commissioned to write a study of modern Dutch poetry in translation. In 1995 he was elected a corresponding member of the Belgian La Société de Langue et de Littérature Wallonnes. During the 1970s he was commissioned by UNESCO to co-translate several works from Eastern languages.

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