WRITER BIOGRAPHIES Elwira Danak writes haiku and a parenting-inspired blog: http://blueberetmum.wordpress.com which has been a regular feature on the Britmums' website 'Poetry Round-Ups'. Her recent poem 'Coming Home' has been published in the Poetry Nook Magazine, September edition.
Michele Brenton @banana_the_poet's most interesting literary achievements so far: twinterviewing Iain M. Banks through the medium of poetry and having two poems broadcast by BBC Radio Four's Saturday Live program just after Neil Gaiman's interview. She's hoping things stay interesting. Kate Garrett writes poetry and flash fiction, and has been published online and in print. She currently lives in Sheffield with her three kids, three cats and a computer programmer. Her website is: http://www.kategarrettwrites.co.uk. Jerard Fagerberg is a non-believer of the pigeonhole and a champion of the First Church of the Open Source. He received a degree in creative writing from Loyola University Maryland, where he founded the Greyhound Collective Poetry Revival. He is also a twotime Academy of American Poets Prize honoree and has recently been published in Boston Poetry Magazine, Word Bohemia, and Phobos Magazine. Currently, he serves as an editor and graphic designer for Manik Music. Helen Braid is an illustrator and graphic designer who is lucky to live on the beautiful Scottish West Coast with her husband and their 2 young children. She is inspired by all things coastal and has a 5 year plan to relocate to the beach. Helen writes about family life with a whimsical twist. She is co-editor of the monthly Britmums Poetry & Prose Round-up and you can contact Helen via her blog: http://allatseascotland.blogspot.co.uk, or on twitter: @EllieAllAtSea. Kathleen Jones writes biography, fiction and poetry and loves mixing them all up! Her partner is currently working in Italy, so she divides her time between the fells of Cumbria and the Alpi Apuane. Her first full collection of poetry, Not Saying Goodbye at Gate 21 was published by Templar in 2011 and she has just finished a biography of the northern poet Norman Nicholson. Kathleen is a member of the New Zealand Tuesday Poets group and currently has poems in the Entanglements anthology of Eco-writing (Two Ravens Press), Estuary: a confluence of art and poetry (Moon & Mountain), A Blackbird Sings, Earthlines Magazine and Katherine Mansfield Studies (Edinburgh University Press). She blogs at A Writer's Life: http://kathleenjonesauthor.blogspot.co.uk. Elizabeth Stott has published stories and poems; most recently - The Warwick Review, Tears in the Fence. A new poem is to appear in The Butcher's Dog in November 2013. She has a collection of short stories: 'Familiar Possessions', a Kindle book: 'This Heat', and a Nightjar Press chapbook. David Coldwell is an artist and writer living at the edge of West Yorkshire. His poems have been published in a number of journals and anthologies. Occasionally he blogs at: http:// davidcoldwell.co.uk. Sometimes he tweets at: @d_coldwell. Mostly he watches the world pass by from a hillside. Debbie Warren Green left office work in 2008 to pursue the artistic life, after working in insurance for 24 years. Not only did she take up painting, but she also began to fulfil her lifelong ambition to become a writer. She takes inspiration from the supernatural and from ancient history, and is particularly interested in the effect that obsession has on human emotions. She hopes to complete a novel or two in 2014!