Kitty Fitzgerald is the author of four novels. Pigtopia was shortlisted for the Barnes & Noble Discover Award 2006. Her theatre work has been performed in eight productions for a variety of companies, and she has had four dramas produced by BBC Radio 4.

Fitzgerald won the Notes from the Underground/Latitude Festival Short Story Competition in 2009, has been published by Shortfire Press and was commissioned in 2012 by NWN to write a story for their Platformanthology.

Fitzgerald is also a lecturer in creative writing, had a Hawthornden Fellowship and a Hosking Houses Trust Writing Award.

Sylva Fischerová was born in 1963 in Prague. She grew up in the Moravian town of Olomouc as a daughter of non-Marxist philosopher whose works were banished under communist rule. She returned to Prague to study philosophy and physics, and later Greek and Latin, at Charles University where she now teaches ancient Greek literature and philosophy. She has published six volumes of poems in Czech, and her poetry has been translated and published in numerous languages. An earlier selection of her poems, The Tremor of Racehorses, translated by Ian and Jarmila Milner, was published by Bloodaxe in 1990. She recently began to write prose, and a book of her stories Miracle, as well as a book for children, appeared in 2005. The Swing in the Middle of Chaos: Selected Poems, co-translated with Stuart Friebert, is published by Bloodaxe in 2009.

Fiona Sampson was first a concert violinist, then studied at the Universities of Oxford, where she won the Newdigate Prize, and Nijmegen, where she received a PhD in the philosophy of language. This research arose from her pioneering residencies in health care. Her latest of her seventeen books is Rough Music, shortlisted for the 2010 Forward and T.S. Eliot Prizes. In 2009 she received a Cholmondeley Award and became an FRSL. She is editor of Poetry Review. She gave the Newcastle/Bloodaxe Poetry Lectures at Newcastle University in 2010, published in 2011 as Music Lessons.

David Ferry is an American poet, translator, and educator.

Gillian Ferguson is a popular writer for Scotland on Sunday - most recently the paper's TV critic. Her debut collection covers the intricacies of the natural world, shedding light on the still more curious human sphere.

Alex Ferguson has won a Guinness National Theatre Award, a Writers' Guild Award for comedy, a Sony Nomination for Creative Radio Writing and a Royal Television Society nomination for his film Lads!