James Knox Whittet’s poems have won the George Crabbe Memorial Award three times and his poetry pamphlet, Seven Poems for Engraved Fishermen (Meniscus, 2004), was shortlisted for the Callum MacDonald Award from the National Library of Scotland.

Elaine Whitesides was born in Cullercoats and left to attend the University of Nottingham at 18. She worked as an English teacher in the East Midlands before retiring.

Christiania Whitehead was born in 1969 in Newcastle, wher her poetry was first published by Bloodaxe in its Bossy Parrot (1987) anthology as a prizewinner of the Evening Chronicle Poetry Competition, and later in Carol Rumens' New Women Poets (1990). She studied English to postgraduate level at Magdalen College, Oxford, and now teaches at the University of Warwick. She is currently writing a book on medieval allegory. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1998. Her first collection The Garden of Slender Trust (Bloodaxe Books, 1999) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection.

Amanda White is a writer and creative practitioner.

Stepping on the Cracks is a poetry collection published in 1999. Her second collection, Appearing Soon , was published by Flambard Press in 2005.