Selected Contributors:

Vahni Capildeo (b. Trinidad, 1973) is Featured Poet in this issue of Stand. She came to the EK in 1991. Since completing a doctorate in Old Norse literature (Oxford, 2001) and holding a Research Fellowship at Girton College, she has worked at the Oxford English Dictionary and as a crisis centre volunteer. She is a Contributing Editor to the Caribbean Review of Books and a Contributing Advisor to Black Box Manifold, the University of Sheffield e-zine. She currently holds a Teaching Fellowship in Creative Writing at the University of Leeds. Her poetry books include No Traveller Returns (Salt, 2003), Person Animal Figure (Landfill, 2005), and The Undraining Sea (Egg Box, 2009).

Sebastian Barker's recent publications include Dannatio Memoriae: Erased from Memory (Enitharmon, 2004) The Matter of Europe (Menard, 2005), and Rowan Williams' Theology of Art & Other Essays (Edwin Mellen, 2009). He has served as Chairman of the Poetry Society (1988-1992) and Editor of The London Magazine (2002-2008) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Neil Ferguson is the author of a collection of short fiction Bars of America (Abacus) and three novels: Putting Out, and English Weather He lives in London, W10.