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Kit Wright has written more than twenty-five books for adults and children.  He is also the winner of awards such as the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Award and (jointly) the Heinemann Award. He was educated at Oxford, and then worked as a lecturer in Canada before returning to England in 1970, where he has remained since.

Robert Wrigley is an American poet who has published numerous collections, including Anatomy of Melancholy & Other Poems (Penguin, 2013).  His work often engages with rural Western landscapes, exploring how humans belong within the natural world. He cites Keats and Wallace Stevens as major influences on his own writing. He lives in Idaho.

Lynne Wycherley was born in East Anglia and her widely published poetry is inspired by the haunting landscape of the Fens. Her most recent collections are Poppy in a Storm-Tossed Field (2009) and Listening to Light: New and Selected Poems (2014) both published by Shoestring Press.

Hedd Wyn (1887 –1917) was a Welsh language poet who was posthumously awarded the bard’s chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod after being killed in World War I. Born Ellis Humphrey Evans, he was inspired to take the bardic name Hedd Wyn, meaning ‘Blessed Peace’, from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionydd valleys.

Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch has published three collections of poems, Rockclimbing in Silk (Seren, 2001), Not in These Shoes (Picador, 2008) and Banjo (Picador, 2012). Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, Poetry London, Poetry Wales and Poetry Review. In 2005 she was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship and in 2007 a grant from the Society of Authors.

Jerrold Yam is a poet and Singaporean lawyer based in London. He is the author of three poetry collections: Intruder (Ethos Books, 2014), Scattered Vertebrae (Math Paper Press, 2013) and Chasing Curtained Suns (Math Paper Press, 2012).

He was named by Singapore’s National Arts Council as one of the ‘New Voices of Singapore 2014’, and his poems have been published widely in magazines including Poetry London, Magma, Oxford Poetry, Washington Square Review and Time Out.