Kathleen Woolrich is a freelance writer and a lover of Algeria. Many books of her poetry have appeared through Lulu and her book Dearest Algeria is available through many online bookstores like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. She is also and particularly an active member of our editorial staff.
Kate Clanchy is the author of two prize-winning collections of poetry, the acclaimed Slattern (1995), which won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection) and a Somerset Maugham Award, and Samarkand (1999), which was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and won a Scottish Arts Council Book Award. Her poetry has been broadcast by BBC Radio and published in various newspapers and magazines including The Scotsman, the New Statesman and Poetry Review. She also writes for radio and broadcasts on the World Service and BBC Radio 3 and 4.
Her latest collection is Newborn (2004), a collection of poems covering pregnancy, birth and caring for a new baby.
Alice Oswald lives in Devon and is married with two children.
Her first collection of poetry, The Thing in the Gap-Stone Stile, was the recipient of the Forward prize in 1996.
Her second collection, Dart, was published by Faber in 2002 to great acclaim and won the 2002 T. S Eliot Prize for Poetry.
Oswald has also written a third collection, Woods etc, and edited an anthology of poems, The Thunder Mutters, both of which will be published in spring 2005.
Ranjit Hoskote's six books include three collections of poetry, most recently The sleepwalker's archive (2001). He is the editor of Reasons for belonging: Fourteen contemporary Indian poets (Penguin India 2002). He received the Sanskriti Award for Literature, 1996