Cherry Butler lives and writes in Leicestershire. Her work has appeared in several magazines, most recently in Poetry Monthly.

Carole Coates’ collection The Goodbye Edition was published in 2005 by Shoestring Press.  Her poem ‘Daughters’ is in The Forward Book of Poetry 2006.  She is published regularly in the literary press ( London Magazine,  Orbis, The Rialto, Acumen, Staple, The Interpreter’s House, The Frogmore Papers, Smith’s Knoll, Envoi, Other Poetry and many other magazines ).   She has been placed in many competitions such as The Peterloo Anthology and she is represented in the 2004 Arvon Poetry Competition Anthology.  She has also published critical writing and has been holder of a Yorkshire Arts Award.  She is a member of Sixpoets www.sixpoets.org.uk  She is currently working on a sequence about anorexia.

Alan Dunnett is Course Director of the MA in (Screen) Performance at Drama Centre London, which is part of Central St Martins College of Art & Design.  A former theatre director, he has more recently worked at Central School of Speech & Drama and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama. Poems have appeared in Stand, The Interpreter's House, Pennine Platform, Other Poetry, Orbis, Envoi, The Reader, Poetry News, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Rialto and NthPosition and are at www.alandunnett.co.uk

Michael Egan until recently was a student at Edge Hill University, studying English, where one of his tutors was Robert Shepherd. His collection The River Swam was published by Paula Brown Publishing.

Chris Gutkind's first book of poems came out in early 2006, it is called Inside to Outside and available from Shearsman Books. He comes from Canada and has lived in London for many years where he works as a librarian at SOAS. He's not the best reader of his own work but he likes to do it and is usually available. He increasingly has a tendency to believe we are living in a computer simulation ...

Born in Bradford, to a Trinidadian father and mother of Ghanaian descent, Sheree Mack is in her early thirties, married with a 8 year old son. After teaching English for seven years in various places around the country, she decided to hang up her red pen and register and devote all her time to writing. She is the creator and coordinator of identity on tyne, the only group in the North East providing a space exclusively for writers of colour. She is currently completing her PhD at University of Newcastle upon-Tyne, focusing on black British women poets and her own collection ‘Family Album’.

James McGowan is Professor Emeritus of English, Illinois Wesleyan University. A poet and translator, his translation of Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal was published in 1993 in the Oxford University Press's 'World Classics' series.