Linda Gregerson is the author of seven books of poetry, including Prodigal: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015) and most recently Canopy (Harper Collins/Ecco 2022). Her work has been recognized with awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Poetry Society of America, the Modern Poetry Association, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Seán Hewitt’s debut collection of poetry, Tongues of Fire, was published by Jonathan Cape in 2020. It won the Laurel Prize in 2021, and was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, a Dalkey Literary Award. In 2020, he was chosen by The Sunday Times as one of their “30 under 30” artists in Ireland. His memoir, All Down Darkness Wide, was published in 2022. He is Poetry Critic for The Irish Times and teaches Modern British & Irish Literature at Trinity College Dublin.

Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to English and Jamaican parents, she is the author of two poetry collections and an editor of six literary anthologies, including Nature Matters: New Poetries by Black and Asian Writers of the Diaspora (co-edited with Mona Arshi) which is forthcoming from Faber and Faber. In 2019-2020 she was appointed as Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholar at the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA. Shortlisted for the Forward Felix Dennis and Jerwood Prizes, her debut An Aviary of Small Birds was an Observer Book of the Year. Her latest, Seasonal Disturbances, explores gentrification, the city and the sacred; it was written while she was in residence at the National Maritime Museum and was a winner in the inaugural Laurel Prize for ecological poetry. She is a fellow of the Instituto Sacatar in Brazil and the Royal Society of Literature.