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.

Katherine Stansfield grew up in Cornwall and now lives in Cardiff. Her poems have appeared in The North, Magma, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter's House, And Other Poems, Butcher's Dog, and as ‘Poem of the Week’ in The Guardian. Her second collection We Could Be Anywhere By Now is available now; the book was supported by a bursary from Literature Wales. She teaches for the Open University and is a Royal Literary Fund Fellow. She also writes novels.

Sarah Wimbush comes from Doncaster and currently lives in Leeds. Her poems are rooted in Yorkshire with tales of childhood, colliery villages, and Gypsies and Travellers, and they have appeared in a variety of magazines. A winner of both the Mslexia Poetry Competition (2016) and the Mslexia/PBS Poetry Pamphlet Competition (2019), she received a New North Poet Award with the Poetry School/New Writing North in 2019. She belongs to York Stanza, run by Carole Bromley, and her debut pamphlet Bloodlines is available now.

Peter Finch is a poet, author and critic who lives in Cardiff.  He is author of the hugely popular Real Cardiff  books, published by Seren and series editor for the 'Real' series. His book Walking Cardiff (Seren, 2019) is a collection of twenty walks around the Welsh capital, written in conjunction with photographer John Briggs. His first collection of poetry in a decade, The Machineries of Joy, is available now.