Katie Campbell was born in Ottawa in 1957. She got an English degree from McGill University in Montreal and worked on documentaries in New York before moving to London. As a journalist she has written widely on arts and women's issues, her plays have been performed on stage and radio, and her novel, The Assumption of the Virgin, is scheduled for production as a feature film. She later returned to academe to study landscape history.

Niall Campbell grew up on South Uist in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, and his first collection, Moontide, is filled with images of the island's seascapes, its myths, its wildlife, and the long dark of its winters. Quietly reflective and deftly musical, these thoughtful poems resonate with silence and song, mystery and wonder, exploring ideas of companionship and withdrawal, love and the stillness of solitude. After winning an Eric Gregory Award in 2011, Niall Campbell published a widely praised pamphlet, After the Creel Fleet, in 2012, and won the Poetry London Competition in 2013. Now this highly assured debut collection will establish him as one of the most distinctive lyric voices to emerge from Scotland in recent years.