Katrina Naomi received an Authors’ Foundation award from the Society of Authors for her new collection, Wild Persistence. Katrina has also published four pamphlets of poetry, including the Japan-themed Typhoon Etiquette (Verve Poetry Press, 2019). Her poetry has appeared on Radio 4’s Front Row and Poetry Please, BBC TV’s Spotlight and on Poems on the Underground. Katrina was the first poet-in-residence at the Parsonage Bronte Museum and was highly commended in the Forward Prizes 2017. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Goldsmiths and tutors for Arvon, Ty Newydd and the Poetry chool. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk 

Rhian is a multi-award winning and widely published Welsh poet. Her poems have appeared in the Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Review, New Statesman, Spectator, Poetry London, Poetry Wales, Arete, Prague Revue, the London Magazine, Stand and Planet Magazine amongst others. Her new collection The Estate Agent’s Daughter is the eagerly awaited follow up to her multi-award winning debut Clueless Dogs (Seren 2012) and her illustrated pamphlet of bird poems Brood (Seren 2017).

Born in 1944, John Davies was brought up in Port Talbot, south Wales, and in Prestatyn where he taught English. He has also taught in Michigan and Washington. In 1986 The Visitor's Book, his third collection, was joint winner of the Poetry Society's major award, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize. John Davies is also a talented wood carver. For more information about John Davies visit his website www.birdsinthewood.co.uk. John is the editor of The Green Bridge which is part of Seren Classics series. 

Cath Drake lives in London and has been published in anthologies and literary magazines in the UK, Australia and US. Her pamphlet Sleeping with Rivers won the Mslexia/PBS Women’s Poetry Pamphlet Competition in 2013 and was a Poetry Book Society Choice. She has been short-listed for the Manchester Poetry Prize and was second in the 2017 Resurgence Poetry School Eco-poetry Prize (now called Ginkgo) and highly commended in the same prize in 2019. Her work has included campaigning, copywriting and storytelling for good causes, environmental writing and award-winning journalism. The Shaking City is her first full collection. She is also a mindfulness teacher and runs writing workshops. www.cathdrake.com