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A. S. Byatt’s novels include the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biogra-

pher’s Tale and the quartet, The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower and A
Whistling Woman. Her most recent book is Little Black Book of Stories. She was
appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.
David Constantine is a translator of Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht.
Collected Poems was published in 2004 and a collection of stories Under the
Dam (Comma Press) in 2005. With his wife Helen he edits Modern Poetry in
Translation.
Penny Fearn is 27 and originally from Dorset. She works in Essex at the
moment as a secondary school teacher of English. Her poetry has appeared
in several magazines, including Poetry Wales and Mslexia.
Andrzej Gasiorek is a Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at the Uni-
versity of Birmingham. He works mainly on fiction, especially on the con-
temporary novel and on literary modernism.
Stephen Gill is a Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford and a long-standing
member of the Wordsworth Trust. He has written William Wordsworth: A Life
(1989) and Wordsworth and the Victorians (1998).
Graham Hayes is a sailor, woodworker, traveller and retired orthopaedic
surgeon.
Lynne Hatwell trained as a paediatric nurse at Great Ormond Street in the
1970s and now works as a health visitor in rural Devon. A degree in English
Literature has also enabled her to develop and share her love of books and
reading.
Howard Jacobson is a novelist and critic. His most recent novel, Kalooki
Nights, is published by Vintage. His new novel, The Act of Love, will be pub-
lished by Jonathan Cape in September.
Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-
Levantine Jewish parents. He is the author of fourteen novels, three volumes
of short stories and six critical books and his plays have been performed on
the stage and on radio.
John Kinsella’s new volume of poetry is Shades of the Sublime and Beautiful
(Picador, March 2008). His new critical volume is Disclosed Poetics: Beyond
Landscape and Lyricism (MUP). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge
University. He is a denizen of the Western Australian wheatbelt.
Kate McDonnell is Assistant Manager of The Reader’s community reading
project, Get Into Reading, and is also a scriptwriter. She lives in Liverpool
with her husband and two children.
Ian McMillan was born in 1956 and he’s been a freelance writer / performer
/broadcaster since 1981. He’s currently presenting The Verb on radio 3 every
Friday night.
Michael O’Neill is a Professor of English at Durham University. His second
collection of poems Wheel is forthcoming from Arc.
Christopher Routledge is a freelance writer and editor. His book Cain’s: The
Story of Liverpool in a Pint will be published in September 2008. Find him on
the web at http://chrisroutledge.co.uk
Mark Rylance is a renowned actor, director and author. He was Artistic
Director of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre from 1996 to 2006.

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Omar Sabbagh is finishing an MA in Creative and Life Writing at Gold-

smiths College. His poetry has appeared in Poetry Review, Agenda Online Broad-
sheet, Stand and The Warwick Review, and is forthcoming in Stand.
Kenneth Steven is first and foremost a poet. His selected poems have ap-
peared recently from Peterloo, a volume entitled Wildscape. He lives in High-
land Scotland.
Enid Stubin is Assistant Professor of English at Kingsborough Community
College of the City University of New York and Adjunct Professor of Human-
ities at NY University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies.
Raymond Tallis switched from medicine to become a full time writer in
March 2006. My Head: Portrait in a Foxed Mirror will be published by Atlantic
Books in 2008.
Joanna Trollope has been writing for over thirty years. Her enormously
successful contemporary works of fiction have made her a household name.
Her latest novel, Friday Nights, is published in February 2008. Joanna was
awarded the OBE in 1996 for services to literature.
Jeffrey Wainwright is about to retire from Manchester Metropolitan Uni-
versity to concentrate on writing.
David Wilson is an art historian and Robert Woof Director of the Words-
worth Trust.

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