Mary Jean Chan is the author of Flèche, published by Faber & Faber (2019). Flèche won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry and was shortlisted in 2020 for the International Dylan Thomas Prize and the 2020 Seamus Heaney Centre First Collection Poetry Prize. Chan is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing (Poetry) at Oxford Brookes University and tutors on the MSt in Creative Writing at the University of Oxford. She is a contributing editor at Oxford Poetry. 

Kazim Ali is a poet, writer, academic and activist. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, essays, and works in translations. His newest books are a volume of three long poems The Voice of Sheila Chandra (Platypus Press, 2021) and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light (Milkweed Press, 2021). In 2003 Ali co-founded Nightboat Books. He was born in the UK and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France, and the Middle East. Ali currently lives in California, where he is the chair of the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Tatevik Sargsyan is the founder and editor of Anamot Press. She set up Anamot Press during the April 2020 national lockdown, launching the Poetry Streaming Series which comprised 40+ poets, publishers and writers who shared queer experiences across borders and other stories. The Sun isn't out Long Enough is the first book published by Anamot Press with funding from Arts Council England. Tatevik is a social change practitioner and a Trustee of the Poetry Translation Centre. ⁣She is a Senior Designer at the RSA.