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AE Stallings is an American poet who is the current Oxford Professor of Poetry. She has published four full collections, the most recent of which Like was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has also published several verse translations.  A Selected Poems This Afterlife was published by Carcanet in 2022.

Meda AA Stamper is a minister and writer of poetry who was born in NYC and raised in the American South. She studied and worked in Paris and was then a writer in corporate affairs at The Coca-Cola Company before being ordained. Author of Embodying Mark, she has developed one-woman performances of John, Mark and other biblical texts, led retreats on the Ile Saint-Honorat in France, and served in congregational ministry in England, where she now lives.

Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was an American writer who moved to Paris in 1903 and stayed there for the remainder of her life. She was a leading figure in the avant-garde and helped to launch the careers of Picasso and Matisse. She tried to achieve in her writing what contemporary painters were doing in their art: to create an experimental non-linear form that broke away from nineteenth century conventions of sense and chronology.

Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897 – 1983) was a Jewish poet born in Poland.  He emigrated to Berlin in 1936, and subsequently on to Britain.  His poetry was admired by many German writers and published in Yiddish and German.  He settled in London where he founded the literary journal Loshn un Lebn.  Many of his poems have been translated into English.  All My Young Years,  published in 2007 by Five Leaves Publications, includes a number of his poems printed in English and Yiddish.

James Stephens (1880 – 1950) was born in Dublin. Alongside original poems he produced many retellings of Irish myths and fairy tales. His first poetry collection Insurrections was published in 1909 and his last Kings and the Moon in 1938.  He spent the latter part of his life in London and gained popularity as a result of a series of broadcasts for the BBC.

Kenneth Steven is a writer and painter who has published 14 collections of poetry. He has written and presented several poetry programmes for BBC Radio including a feature on St Kilda which won a Sony Award in 2006. His most recent collection is A Song Among The Stones (Polygon, 2012). He lives in Argyll.