Roselle Angwin is the director of the Fire in the Head creative writing programme. Her book on the writing process is Writing the Bright Moment (Fire in the Head). Her next book, Looking For Icarus (bluechrome) will be published in 2005.

John Lyons, Trinidadian poet and painter, Wind Rush Arts Achiever 2003, was twice winner of the Peterloo Poetry competition. Voices From A Silk-Cotton Tree (Smith/Doorstop Books) is the latest of three published collections of poetry.

Amanda Dalton is a poet and playwright. Her collection How To Disappear (Bloodaxe) was shortlisted for a Forward Prize and her extensive use of poetry in radio includes a radical version of the silent movie The Cabinet of Dr Caligari with composer Olly Fox (BBC Radio 3). She also writes original dramas (BBC Radios 3 and 4) and adaptations, including Howards End and Hitchcock's Spellbound. She has created site specific theatre pieces with Wilson+Wilson Co. and original work for young people, most recently Powder Monkey (Royal Exchange Theatre 2010). She is currently completing Stray, a new collection for Bloodaxe.