fred spoliar is a poet and education worker living in London. Recent poems can be found in publications including algia, datableed, erotoplasty, PIGS, and tentacular.

 Rogelio Braga is an exiled playwright, novelist, essayist, publisher, and human rights activist from the Philippines. They had published two novels, a collection of short stories, and a book of plays before they left the archipelago in 2018. Braga was a Fellow for Theatre of the Asian Cultural Council in New York in 2016. Miss Philippines, their first play written entirely in English is currently under development commissioned by the New Earth Theatre in London. Braga's new play Till Human Voices Wake Us is part of Theatre Témoin's NHS Yarns project with the Mercury Theatre in Colchester.

 John Wilkinson is an English poet now Director of the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago and a Professor in the Department of English. His publications stretch back to 1976, but his most recent books are My Reef My Manifest Array (poetry, Carcanet 2019), Lyric in Its Times (criticism, Bloomsbury Academic 2019), The Following (essays, The Last Books 2000) and this year, Wood Circle (poem cycle, The Last Books). Before leaving for the US in 2005, he worked for the National Health Service in the East End of London, where he was the public health lead for mental health.