Alison Binney’s pamphlet Other Women’s Kitchens won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2021. Alison teaches English in a state secondary school and to trainee teachers on the PGCE English course at the University of Cambridge. Since creating more space in her life for writing, over the last four years she has been widely published, including in The North, Magma, Under the Radar, Butcher’s Dog and Popshot. Her poems have been longlisted in the National Poetry Competition and Highly Commended in The Bridport Prize. She founded the Cambridge branch of the National Writing Project, which brings together teachers as writers, and occasionally leads one-day writing and walking courses in the Peak District.

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 Poetry Pamphlet Prize 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. Her debut collection The Shaking City was recently longlisted for The Laurel Prize 2021. She is also a mindfulness teacher and runs writing workshops. Find out more on her website www.cathdrake.com.

Polly Atkin lives in Cumbria. Her first poetry collection Basic Nest Architecture appeared in 2017 and was longlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize. She is also the author of a number of pamphlets including Shadow Dispatches which won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet prize and a biography Recovering Dorothy: The Hidden Life of Dorothy Wordsworth (Saraband, 2021). She is working on a memoir exploring place, belonging and disability. Her second collection Much With Body is forthcoming in October 2021.

Ilse Pedler was born in Derby and grew up in Birmingham. She has a degree in Applied Zoology from Bangor University, a degree in Veterinary Medicine from Cambridge University and is an MRCVS: Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. She lives in Saffron Walden, where she works as a vet. She has a son, stepson and a number of small and medium-sized animals. Her poems have been published widely, in Poetry News, Orbis, The North and other journals. Her pamphlet The Dogs that Chase Bicycle Wheels won the Mslexia Poetry Pamphlet Prize 2015. Her debut collection Auscultation was published in 2021.