Kerry Hudson Kerry Hudson was born in Aberdeen. Growing up in a succession of council estates, B&Bs and caravan parks provided her with a keen eye for idiosyncratic behaviour, material for life, and a love of travel. Her first novel, Tony Hogan Bought Me an Ice-cream Float Before He Stole My Ma won the Scottish First Book Prize and shortlisted for the Southbank Sky Arts Literature Award, the Guardian First Book Award, Green Carnation Prize, Author’s Club First Novel Prize, Saltire Scottish First Book of the Year and the Polari First Book Award. Kerry’s second novel, Thirst, will be published in July 2014.
Michael Hulse Described by Gwyneth Lewis as 'a formidable poet', Michael Hulse is a key figure in contemporary poetry. He has won numerous awards, and his latest collection, Half-Life, was chosen as a Book of the Year by John Kinsella, who described it as 'brilliant' and 'devastatingly disturbing'. He has translated more than sixty books from the German, among them works by W. G. Sebald, Goethe and Rilke, and co-edited the best-selling anthology The Twentieth Century in Poetry. Michael Hulse teaches at the University of Warwick.
Helen Ivory Helen Ivory is a poet and collage/assemblage artist. She is a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award and her fourth Bloodaxe Books collection is Waiting for Bluebeard (May 2013). She has co-edited with George Szirtes In Their Own Words: Contemporary Poets on their Poetry, Salt 2012. She teaches for the Arvon Foundation, the Poetry School, the University of East Anglia and mentors for the Poetry Society. She edits the webzine Ink Sweat and Tears and is an editor for The Poetry Archive.
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