Iona Lee is a poet, artist, music-maker, storyteller and spoken-word performer from Edinburgh. She has been a prominent member of Scotland’s live poetry scene for ten years, appearing on radio and television, and performing her work in venues and on festival stages all over the UK and Europe, including Glastonbury, the World Slam Championships, and the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Her debut collection, Amamnesis, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award and was included in SNACK Magazine’s list of the top ten books to be published in Scotland in 2023.

April Yee’s poetry, fiction and essays have been named Best of the Net, two-time The Best American Essays Notable, and winner of the Manchester Fiction Prize and Ivan Juritz Prize. A Harvard alumna and former journalist, she reported in more than a dozen countries before moving to London, where she is a Spread the Word Trustee and Refugee Journalism Project mentor. Her work is in the Times Literary Supplement, The Offing, and Electric Literature, and she has received support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Southbank Centre, the National Book Critics’ Circle, and the University of East Anglia.