Juana Adcock is a writer and translator working in English and Spanish. She was born in Mexico in 1982 and has been living in Glasgow since 2007. She completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow in 2009. Her work has been included in anthologies and literary magazines in Mexico, the uk, Germany, Sweden and the usa. Her first poetry collection, Manca, was published in 2014 in Mexico.

Gerrie Fellows’s most recent collection is The Body in Space (Shearsman, 2014). Earlier books include several sequences explor- ing the effects of technologies on places and people. The Powerlines, a collage of poems and prose-poems, traces interconnected Scottish and New Zealand histories through women’s voices. Window for a Small Blue Child, a sequence charting the experience and imagery of ivf, was shortlisted for the Sundial Scottish Poetry Book of the Year. Born in New Zealand in 1954, Gerrie has lived in Scotland for thirty years, working as a creative writing tutor and as a mentor to emerging poets.

Mária Ferenčuhová, was born in Bratislava in 1975, is a poet, translator and film theorist. She studied dramaturgy and screenwriting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and linguistics at the Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She has published three collections of poetry, Skryté titulky (Closed Caption, 2003), Princíp neistoty (The Uncertainty Principle, 2008), Ohrozen druh (Endangered Species, 2012) and a study of documentary film Odložený čas (Delay Time, 2009). She is Editor of the film magazine kino-icon, translates from French, lectures at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava and the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica, and lives in Bratislava.

Ján Gavura is a poet, translator, university lecturer, and literary critic. He also edits books and journals. He was born in 1975 in Poprad, Slovakia, and currently lectures at Prešov University, where his main areas of research are twentieth-century literature, and the theory, history and translation of literature, especially poetry. He has published three collections of poetry; the first, Pálenie včiel (Burning Bees, 2001) was awarded the annual Ivan Krasko Prize for the best debut in Slovak language literature. This was followed by Každým ránom si (Every Morning You Are, 2006) and Besa (2012), from which the two poems here are taken.

David Kinloch was brought up in Glasgow, where he was born in 1959. He is the author of five books of poetry, most recentlyFinger of a Frenchman (Carcanet, 2011) and a chapbook, Some Women (HappenStance Press, 2014). He is currently Professor of Poetry and Creative Writing at The University of Strathclyde and the author of numerous studies in the fields of French, translation and Scottish studies. He is the recipient of various awards and fellowships for his work, helped to found the first ever Scottish Writers’ Centre, and is a Trustee of the Edwin Morgan Trust.

James Sutherland-Smith was born in Aberdeen in 1948 and left the UK in 1980, eventually settling in then-Czechoslovakia in 1989. Through his position as Peacekeeping English Project Manager he has experienced at first-hand the difficult era of transi- tion in the Balkans. The most recent of his numerous poetry collections are Popeye in Belgrade (2008) and Mouth (Shearsman, 2014). He has co-translated several anthologies, and with his wife Viera is the principal translator of Slovak poetry into English, with a num- ber of collections of individual poets including Scent of the Unseen: Selected Poems of Mila Haugová (2002). He lives in Slovakia.