Jaime Robles writes text for both musical and visual settings. She has published work in Conjunctions, First Intensity, Five Fingers Review, Fourteen Hills, Luna, New American Writing, Transfer, and Volt, among others. Formerly the literary acquisitions editor for The Lapis Press in Santa Monica, she is currently the editor and publisher of Five Fingers Press. Her latest book of poems, Anime, Animus, Anima, will be published by the UK-based publisher, Shearsman Books, in early 2010. 

Robert Sheppard's Complete Twentieth Century Blues appeared from Salt in 2008 and his Warrant Error from Shearsman the following year. He has published criticism on Iain Sinclair, Lee Harwood and others, and has recently set up the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry with Scott Thurston (www.glyphi.co.uk/poetry.) He edits the occasional blogzine Pages (www.robertsheppard.blogspot.com).

Michael Borremans is an Antwerp-based artist whose work may be viewed at http://www.zeno-x.com/artists/michael_borremans.htm

Nathan Thompson’s most recent collection, Holes in the Map, is just out from Oystercatcher Press www.oystercatcherpress.com

Ben Smith is currently studying for a PhD in contemporary ecopoetry at Exeter University. Recently in his own poetry he has been interested in exploring the role of writing and record-keeping as a way of interacting with our environment. He has previously had poems published in Succour magazine and Exeter Flying Post.

Ashley Chantler teaches twentieth-century literature and creative writing at the University of Chester. His poetry collection, In Praise of Paving, was published in 2003. He is the co-editor of Flash: The International Short-Short Story Magazine.

Nigel Pickard has had a poetry collection, Making Sense (Shoestring), and a novel, One (Bookcase), published.

Peter Gillies is both a painter and a poet whose work has been widely shown internationally: most recently in the exhibition Zeit at the Aspekte Galerie in the Gasteig, Munich (2008).  As artist-in-residence at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice he produced several limited edition artist books including Sintesi (2003) and Passaggio (2005) which contain sequences of his prose and poetry.  He is currently working on his first full collection entitled Proximities.