Selected Contributors:

Vahni Capildeo was born in Trinidad in 1973 and is a Contributing Editor to the Caribbean Review of Books and a Contributing Advisor to Black Box Manifold. His poetry publications include No Traveller Returns, Person Animal Figure, The Undraining, The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, In the Telling, and Identity Parade.

Sam Gardiner was born in Ireland. His poem Protestant Windows won the National Poetry Competition. Reviewing his 2007 collection The Night Ships, The Guardian concluded "Everyone should read these marvelous poems."

Jonathan Hadwen is a poet from Brisbane, Australia. He has been published in Australia and overseas, and in 2010 his micro-collection Night Swim was released as part of the "Brisbane New Voices" series.

Fred Johnston was born in Belfast in 1951. Writer and critic, he founded the Cúirt literature festival in Galway in 1986. A collection of stories is due later this year from Parthian (UK) and a collection of stories in French translation by Kristian le Braz, "Orangeman," appeared last year in France from Terre de Brume.

Jane McKie's first collection, Morocco Rococo (Cinnamon Press), was awarded the Sundial / Scottish Arts Council prize for best first book of 2007. She runs a small press, Knucker Press. Her latest collection is When the Sun Turns Green (Polygon, 2009).

Tania Maliarchuk, born in 1983 in the Ukranian city of Ivano-Frankivsk, now lives and works as a journalist in the capital city of of Kyiv. She published her first novel in 2004, Aldolpho's Endspiel, or a Rose for Liza, as well as five more collections of shorter prose works, including A Divine Comedy (2009), which is a collected edition of her previous four books.

Jason Ranon Uri Rotstein is Poetry Editor of the Jewish Quarterly and Associate Editor of Kilimanjaro: Creative Art & Design. His poetry has appeared in PN Review, Literary Review of Canada and Poetry International among many others and has been anthologized in Best Canadian Poetry in English.

Toon Tellegen is one of Holland's most celebrated poets, with many awards to his name. He is also a prolific children's book writer and novelist, and his poetic animal stories are extremely popular among both children and adults.

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