Andrea Brady is a poet and critic whose most recent books are The Blue Split Compartments (Wesleyan, 2021) and Poetry and Bondage: A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint (forthcoming from Cambridge in November). She teaches at Queen Mary University of London. andreabrady.me

Fran Lock is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of seven poetry collections and of numerous chapbooks, most recently Contains Mild Peril (Out-Spoken Press, 2019). Fran has recently completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London, titled, "Impossible Telling and the Epistolary Form: Contemporary Poetry, Mourning and Trauma". She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters and she currently teaches at Poetry School. Fran is currently working on 2 books for the87press, the first of which, entitled 'White Other' is due in Autumn 2022.

A poem from Rishi Dastidar’s debut Ticker-tape was included in The Forward Book of Poetry 2018. A pamphlet, the break of a wave, was published by Offord Road Books in 2019. His second collection, Saffron Jack, is published in the UK by Nine Arches Press. He is also editor of The Craft: A Guide to Making Poetry Happen in the 21st Century (Nine Arches Press), and co-editor of Too Young, Too Loud, Too Different: Poems from Malika’s Poetry Kitchen (Corsair).

Gareth Farmer is an autistic writer and academic based in Shefford, UK. His academic work focuses on poetry, poetics and literary aesthetics and he has published a number of poetry chapbooks, pamphlets and books, most recently, Strategic Forms: or, 74 Questions; 92 Solutions (2021) and Diurnal Sweigh (2018). Gareth's next collection of poetry, entitled 'Kerf' is forthcoming on the87press.

Holly Pester is a poet and writer. She has worked in sound art and performance, with BBC Radio, Women’s Art Library and Wellcome Collection. She has written critical creative work on lullabies and rest/worksongs, and her debut collection, Comic Timing was published by Granta in February 2021.

Florence Uniacke is an artist living and working in South London. Her book Suiving is out this spring with Ma Bibliotheque.