Iolo Williams is a Welsh naturalist and broadcaster, best known for his BBC Wales and S4C nature programmes. The presenter of 17 TV series in two languages, he is also a presenter on BBC network’s Nature Watch programmes, an author in Welsh and English and a public lecturer. He has a degree in Ecology and has worked in farming, timber and for the RSPB in the field and as a regional co-ordinator. He is the author of three books in Welsh and three in English including Wild Places: Wales' Top 40 Nature Sites. His latest book Wild Places UK: UK's Top 40 Nature Sites is available now.

Born in Cushendall, County Antrim, Anne-Marie Fyfe lives in London where she has run readings and classes​ for Coffee-House Poetry at London's live literature venue, the Troubadour, since 1997. She is a Poetry Co-ordinator for the annual John Hewitt International Summer School in Armagh and is former Chair of the Poetry Society. She has published five collections of poetry including House of Small Absences (Seren). No Far Shore is her travel/literary memoir in which she explores her writerly passion for horizon-gazing and connection to the sea. 

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.

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.