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Nathalie Handal grew up in Latin America, France and the Middle East. Her most recently published collection is Life in a Country Album (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019) which won the Palestine Book Award. Her work has been translated into 15 languages and she is a Professor at New York University. She edited the anthology The Poetry of Arab Women, which introduced Arab women poets to a wider audience and was named one of the top 10 Feminist Books by The Guardian.

Shasta Hanif Ali is a Pakistani Scottish writer and poet. Her writing delicately navigates the legacy of race and heritage; where themes of memory and language interlace and disrupt. Shasta’s writing has been published in the Association for Scottish Literature, Federation of Writers Scotland, Sidhe Press and Our Time Is A Garden (IASH), among others. Recently Shasta was nominated as one of Edinburgh’s 100 trail blazing women past and present, and honoured in a mural which exhibited across Edinburgh.

Sophie Hannah has published five collections of poetry, all with Carcanet Press.  Her most recent collection, Pessimism for Beginners, was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize in 2007 and her poetry is now studied in the UK at GCSE and A-Level. She is also a writer of international best-selling psychological thrillers and is Fellow Commoner at Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. 

Choman Hardi was born in Kurdistan and lived in Iraq and Iran before seeking asylum in the UK in 1993. She has published poetry in both Kurdish and English and several of her poems have been included on the GCSE English curriculum. In 2014 her poem ‘Summer Roof’ was chosen by the Southbank Centre in London as one of the 50 greatest love poems of the last 50 years. Her latest collection is Considering the Women (Bloodaxe, 2015).

Kerry Hardie is an Irish poet and novelist who lives in County Kilkenny. She has published numerous poetry collections with Gallery Press in Ireland and her eighth Where Now Begins was published in the UK by Bloodaxe in 2020. She has won many prizes including the National Poetry Prize (Ireland) and the Michael Hartnett Award. She is a member of Aosdána.

Angela Harding is an illustrator and printmaker whose work is inspired by the flora and fauna of the British countryside. The studio in her garden overlooks open farmland which often forms the backdrop for her work. Her book A Year Unfolding (Little Brown, 2021) is a record of the changing seasons in and around Rutland where she is based.