Fiona Ritchie Walker is a poet, and her poem, After Diagnosis, won first prize in the 2015 Carers UK poetry competition. Walker has read on BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please and is a past finalist in the Scottish Community Drama Festival's One Act Play Competition with her play, The Anstruther Light, which has also been performed by the Kaims Players, Montrose.

Beginning in 1997, Stan Walinets penned a weekly four-line poem for The Northern Echo, the North-East morning newspaper based in Darlington.

Elizabeth Walcott Hackshaw gained a Bachelor’s Degree in English and French Literature from Boston University, USA, and a Post Doctorate degree in French Literature. Walcott Hackshaw was born in Trinidad in 1964. Her stories have appeared in several literary journals, and she has developed an expertise in francophone Caribbean literature.

Four Taxis Facing North is Elizabeth Walcott Hackshaw's first short story collection, published in 2007.