Born in Norfolk in 1971, Heidi Williamson has lived in Stirling, Brussels and Salisbury. She now lives in Wymondham, Norfolk. In 2008-09 she was poet-in-residence at the London Science Museum’s Dana Centre, and she is currently poet-in-residence at the John Jarrold Printing Museum in Norwich. In 2008 she received an Arts Council award to complete her first collection, Electric Shadow (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, which was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize. Her work has been used to inspire poetry and science discussions in schools and adult creative writing groups, and has featured in NHS waiting rooms, cafés, and at festivals.

Cynthia Fuller worked freelance in Adult and Higher Education for many years, has taught creative writing for Leeds University and the Open University, and worked as a poetry editor for the magazine Writing Women. She has also edited several anthologies including The Poetry Cure with Julia Darling and North by North-East with Andy Croft. She is Degree Programme Director for the Postgraduate Certificate in Creative Writing at Newcastle University.

Fuller has published 5 poetry collections with Flambard Press including Moving Towards Light in 1992; Instructions for the Desert in 1996; Only a Small Boat in 2001, Jack's Letters Home 1917 - 1918 in 2006 and Background Music in 2009.