Peter Finch is a poet and topographer who has written extensively on Cardiff, including four volumes of Real Cardiff in Seren’s Real series. John Briggs has photographed Cardiff for more than 40 years and has a visual knowledge of the city equal to Finch’s historical and literary takes. Seren has published two books of Brigg’s images of Cardiff, Before the Deluge and Taken in Time, plus Newportrait.

Tamar Yoseloff’s fifth collection, A Formula for Night: New and Selected Poems, was published by Seren in 2015. She’s also the author of Formerly, a chapbook incorporating photographs by Vici MacDonald (Hercules Editions, 2012) shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award; two collaborative editions with artist Linda Karshan; and a book with artist Charlotte Harker. She’s a freelance tutor in creative writing, and runs poetry courses for galleries including the Hayward, the RA and the National Gallery. She’s a lecturer on the Poetry School / Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry. Her sixth collection, The Black Place, is available now.

Zoë Skoulding is a poet whose interests include translation, performance, collaboration and literary criticism. She is Reader in the School of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics at Bangor University. She is the author of a number of poetry collections including The Museum of Disappearing Sounds (Seren), which was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award, and Remains of a Future City (Seren), which was long-listed for Wales Book of the Year. In 2018 she was a recipient of the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors for her body of work in poetry. Her new collection Footnotes to Water is available now. 

Alexandra Ford was born near Philadelphia. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and her BA from Virginia Tech. Her writing appears in The Rumpus and No Tokens Journal, among others. She lives on a smallholding on the border between England and Wales. Her first novel What Remains at the End is available now.