Brendan Cleary is from Co. Antrim but now lives in Newcastle, where he edited the poetry magazine The Echo Room. He works as a part-time lecturer, performance poet and stand-up comic, and has appeared several times on the Mark Radcliffe Show on Radio One. His last book-length collection, The Irish Card, was published by Bloodaxe in 1993.

Killarney Clary is an American poet who was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.Her first book, Who Whispered Near Me, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. Clary received the Lannan Literary Award in 1992.