Edwin Wilcox was a newspaper correspondent in Russia during the 1917 Revolution and Civil War, during which he sent regular articles to The Daily Telegraph and contemporary journals. He had lived and worked as The Daily Telegraph correspondent in Berlin prior to his work in Russia, and returned to Berlin in 1919. He retired in 1940. Wilcox regularly contributed to contemporary journals on subjects related to Russia and Germany, amongst other subjects. He spoke Russian, German, and French, and also wrote articles in these languages. During the Second World War, Wilcox was consulted on the subject of teaching foreign languages to British soldiers. He also published two books: German Sea-Power, its rise, progress, and economic basis (1914) and Russia's Ruin (1919). In his later life Wilcox lived in Newcastle upon Tyne and died in 1947.

Michael Wilkin is a former trades union official at the Swan Hunter Shipyards and second-hand bookseller.

Charles Wilkinson's publications include The Snowman and Other Poems (IRON Press, 1978) and The Pain Tree and Other Stories (London Magazine Editions, 2000). His stories have appeared in Best Short Stories 1990(Heinemann), Best English Short Stories 2 (Norton), Midwinter Mysteries (Little, Brown), Unthology (Unthank Books), London Magazine, and in genre magazines/anthologies such as Supernatural Tales, Horror Without Victims (Megazanthus Press), The Sea in Birmingham (TSFG), Rustblind and Silverbright (Eibonvale Press), Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction, Phantom Drift (USA) and Shadows & Tall Trees (Canada). Ag & Au , a pamphlet of his poems, is published by Flarestack Poets.