Linda France has published eight full collections, including Red, The Gentleness of the Very Tall, book of days (also published by Smokestack), You are Her and Reading the Flowers. She won the National Poetry Competition in 2013 and received a Cholmondley Award for her contribution to poetry in 2020. She lives near Hexham.

Helen Mort is a five-time winner of the Foyle Young Poets award. Her books include Black Car Burning, Exire, No Map Could Show Them and Division Street. She lives in Sheffield.