Obododimma Oha, a Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Cultural Semiotics, and Creative Writing in the Department of English, University of Ibadan, has published his poems in Shadowtrain, Otoliths, Agenda, Postcolonial Text, African Writing Online, Sentinel Poetry Online, and in several anthologies. He is Associate Editor to Configurations, SAFARA, and NAWA. More information about his writing could be obtained from from his blogs: http://udude.wordpress.com/ , http://www.edutitra.blogspot.com/ , http://obododimma.livejournal.com/ , and http://www.obododimma-oha.blogspot.com/ . E-mail: udude@full-moon.com, obododimma@writing.com, ooha@mail.ui.edu.ng .

Hannah Silva is a writer and theatre director based in Devon, and currently doing an MFA in Theatre Practice at Exeter University. She regularly performs her poetry in London and the South West and was included in the Times Online "Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008." Her poems have appeared in publications such as Stride, The Pedastal, and Tears in the Fence. For further details of her work, and information on upcoming readings/ performances please visit
http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk.

Anatoly Kudryavitsky was born in 1954 in Moscow of a Polish father and half-Irish mother, a daughter of an Irishman from Co. Mayo who ended up in the Stalin’s GULAG. A poet and fiction writer, he has published seven collections of his Russian poems and two collections of his English poems; Shadow of Time (Goldsmith Press, Ireland, 2005) and Morning at Mount Ring
(Doghouse Books, Ireland, 2007). He also edited A Night in the Nabokov Hotel (Dedalus Press, Ireland, 2006), an anthology of contemporary Russian poetry in English translation that contains his translations of 20 contemporary Russian poets. His poems and short stories have been translated into eleven languages. He lives in Dublin. His website can be viewed at
http://uk.geocities.com/akudryavitsky

Siobhán McNamara is an Irish literary translator, a member of the Irish Translators and Interpreters Association (ITIA). Some of her translations from contemporary Russian poets were published in English-language magazines. She also researched into the works of Korney Chukovsky, a prominent Russian writer of the first half of the 20th century, and translated some into English. She lives in Dublin.

Marcus Slease is a native of Portadown, N. Ireland. He is a former member of the Lucifer Poetics Group (based in North Carolina) and has lived in Milton Keynes, Las Vegas, Utah, Seattle, Bellingham, Seoul, Katowice, Rybnik, Zory, and many other places. He is currently living and writing in London.

Sarah Hymas’s poems have been published in anthologies, magazines, pamphlets and multimedia exhibits around the UK and on the web . She lives in Lancaster and is the editor of Flax Books. www.myspace.com/shymas

Heidi Colthup lives in the wilds of Kent, where she teaches and writes.

Adam Burbage is co-editor of online magazine Geometer (www.geometer.org.uk), and has previously had poems published in Stride and Great Works. He lives and works in Oxford.

C. J. Allen’s poetry has appeared in a wide range of magazines & anthologies - from Poetry Review to Modern Painters - and has been broadcast on BBC Radios 3 & 4. His work has been awarded prizes in a number of competitions, including the Arvon, Yorkshire, Winchester, Ver Poets & Kent & Sussex, amongst others.  His most recent collection, A Strange Arrangement: New & Collected Poems, is from Leafe Press www.leafepress.com.  He is currently working with the artist Val Carman on a sculpture & poetry project commissioned by Peak Arts, & enjoying it immensely.

Rupert M Loydell is Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at University College Falmouth. His two most recent books are An Experiment in Navigation (Shearsman, 2008) and Ex Catalogue (Shadowtrain, 2006).

Matt Bryden has taught English as a foreign language in England, Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic. His work has appeared in New Welsh Review, Magma, Smiths Knoll and Orange Coast Review among others. In 2006 he was awarded an Arts Council South West grant to document life as a night porter in a northern hotel.

Amy Slater is from the Highlands of Scotland, Drumnadrochit, but currently resides in Aberdeen where she studies Primary Teaching.

Rufo Quintavalle was born in London in 1978 and lives in Paris.  His work has appeared in The Wolf, Barrow Street, nthposition, Smiths Knoll, The London Magazine, Upstairs at Duroc, MiPOesias and elimae.  A chapbook, Make nothing happen, is forthcoming from Oystercatcher Press.

Mark Goodwin lives in Leicestershire. His first full-length collection, Else, was published by Shearsman earlier this year.