Tuesday Shannon is a teacher, poet and playwright, born and raised in Ilkeston, Derbyshire. In 2012 she took part in the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writer’s Programme, and in 2017 completed an MA in Creative Writing. She is currently a PhD researcher at Nottingham Trent University.

Pippa Hennessy is a writer, publisher and bookseller living and working in Nottingham – she works at Five Leaves.  She has published poetry, short text and graphic fiction and non-fiction in a variety of magazines and anthologies. She is currently trying to understand quantum theory through poetry (or possibly vice versa).
Read Pippa Hennessy’s blog about being selected as one of the three poets

Elizabeth Hourston was born and brought up in Orkney and graduated from Edinburgh University. She was a teacher for many years and now lives in Leicestershire. She has poems published in magazines and anthologies and has written two books of narrative verse to commemorate the founding of St Magnus Cathedral in Kirkwall.