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Adam Lowe is Editor of Dog Horn Publishing and Polluto. His debut novel, Troglodyte Rose, was published in hardback by Cadaverine Publications in 2009 and was released in paperback this year by Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink.

He has been nominated for four Lambda Literary Awards in the upcoming ceremony and has previously been published in Leeds Guide, The Cadaverine, Wamack, Kaleidotrope, Saucytooth’s, Unlikely Stories, Word Riot, Chimeraworld 5 and Killing Bob Marley.

He is also on the young writers’ steering committee for Arts Council Yorkshire and his play Boys appeared in Street Voices 2 at Theatre-in-the-Mill, Bradford.

Kate North has an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from Cardiff University. She has previously taught at Cardiff University, York St John University and The University of York.

Her poetry is widely anthologized and can be read in Not a Muse (Haven, 2009) and Pterodactyl’s Wing (Parthian, 2003). Her debut novel, Eva Shell, was published by Cinnamon Press in 2008. She was poetry editor for Aesthetica throughout 2006 and 2007 and she writes reviews, articles and interviews for a variety of magazines and journals. She also judges the Aesthetica Annual Poetry Prize. She currently edits for Iota Magazine.

André Naffis-Sahely is a poet and freelance reviewer. He recently edited the Selected Prose of Mick Imlah.

A selection of his fables will be published by Fischer Verlag, in Germany, in August 2010.

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Pascale Petit’s latest collections are What the Water Gave Me – Poems after Frida Kahlo (Seren, 2010) and The Treekeeper’s Tale (Seren, 2008). She has published five poetry books including two which were shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and which were books of the year in The Independent and TLS. Her second collection The Zoo Father was also published in Mexico in a bilingual edition. A poem from it was shortlisted for a Forward Prize. In 2004 the Poetry Book Society selected her as one of the Next Generation Poets.

She has won numerous awards, including three from Arts Council England. Petit trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist. She is widely travelled, including in the Venezuelan Amazon, China and Nepal. She co-edited Tying the Song (Enitharmon, 2000), the first anthology from The Poetry School, has worked as Poetry Editor for Poetry London and was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Middlesex University. She currently tutors poetry courses for Tate Modern, the Arvon Foundation and Ty Newydd. She regularly updates her website and blog.

Rory Waterman was born in Belfast in 1981, but grew up in rural Lincolnshire. His poems have been taken by various publications, including PN Review, Stand, Able Muse, Raintown Review, Staple and Agenda, and his work will appear in a Carcanet anthology next year. He also writes critical prose for The Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, The Literateur, Sphinx, The Dark Horse and the British Council Contemporary Writers website, among other places. With Nick Everett, he is the General Editor of New Walk Magazine, a new international journal for poetry and the arts.

He is writing a PhD thesis on modern poetry at the University of Leicester.

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Sally Clark has had poems published in several journals including Magma, Orbis, The Interpreter’s House and Iota. She has also had poems in several competition anthologies including the Bridport 2005, The Templar Collection competitions Solitaire (2007) and Buzz (2008) and The Cinnamon Press anthology Storms at Galesburg (August 2009).

She has an MA in Creative & Critical Writing from the University of Gloucestershire and teaches for the Centre for Lifelong Learning at the University of Warwick. In 2010 she joined the team of editors for Iota.

Cahal Dallat was born in the Antrim Glens in 1953 and has lived in London with his wife, poet Anne-Marie Fyfe, since 1974.

Cahal’s poetry has appeared in a range of literary magazines including TLS, Guardian, Honest Ulsterman, Poetry London and Poetry Ireland. He has appeared in anthologies including The Blackbird’s Nest (Blackstaff, 2006) and Divers: the Poetry Workshop Anthology (Aark Arts, 2008). His full length collection, The Year of Not Dancing, was published by Blackstaff Press in 2009.

Cahal has been a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s weekly arts magazine, Saturday Review, and writes on Irish fiction and drama for literary journals including the TLS and Guardian. He plays several instruments including bandoneon, musette-accordion, mando-fiddle, balalaika, piano, clarinet & soprano-sax.

Sue Dymoke is based in the East Midlands. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Leicester where she leads the PGCE English course, a poet and anthologist. Before moving into Teacher Education she worked as an English teacher in 11 - 18 schools for sixteen years. Sue specialises in researching and writing about the teaching of poetry and leading workshops with primary and secondary teachers on varied topics. She is a member of the education working group of the national Poetry Archive and a regular speaker at teacher conferences.

Her publications include: Teaching English Texts 11 -18 (Continuum, 2009); Drafting and Assessing Poetry: A Guide for Teachers (Paul Chapman Publishing, 2003); The New Girls - new and selected poems (Shoestring Press, 2004) and Not Just a Game: Sporting Poetry (Five Leaves, 2006, an anthology co-edited with Andy Croft). Sue has also written many articles for professional and academic journals on teaching poetry.

Gregory Woods was born in Egypt in 1953 and grew up in Ghana. He began his teaching career at the University of Salerno and now works at Nottingham Trent University, where he was appointed Professor of Gay and Lesbian Studies in 1998. His was the first such appointment in the United Kingdom.

Gregory has published four collections of poetry with Carcanet, including Quidnunc (2007) and The District Commissioner’s Dreams (2002) He is also the author of a number of critical books, including Articulate Flesh: Male Homo-eroticism and Modern Poetry (1987) and A History of Gay Literature: The Male Tradition (1998), both from Yale University Press. He has been a member of the board of directors of East Midlands Arts and is a Fellow of the English Association.

Zoë Skoulding was born in 1967 and has lived in north Wales since 1991, having previously grown up mainly in Suffolk, worked in Belgium, read English at Exeter University and taught in India. She has taught literature and writing for several years, initially in secondary schools and more recently at Bangor University. Having completed her Ph.D. in Creative and Critical Writing in 2005, she was awarded an Academi (Arts Council of Wales) bursary. She currently holds an Arts and Humanities Research Council Fellowship (2007-2012) in Bangor’s School of English, where she is researching poetry, gender and city space.

Her most recent collection is Remains of a Future City (Seren, 2008). She has also been involved in several projects combining performed poetry or lyrics with music, soundscape and film. Parking Non-Stop has been the most extended of these collaborations. As well as the more musical aspects represented on the 2008 album Species Corridor (Klangbad), it has included performances of poetry in translation juxtaposed with field recordings as a means of exploring both acoustic and linguistic relationships between places. Her poetry has been translated into Bosnian, Bulgarian, Czech, French, German, Norwegian, Slovak and Slovenian.

She is a regular contributor to literary journals and in 1994 launched the poetry magazine and pamphlet series, Skald, of which she remains a co-editor. She became editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales in 2008.