Meredith Andrea was brought up in Scotland and studied English at Bristol, Victoria B.C. and at Oxford. She now lives in South Birmingham. In 2006 Flarestack published her first pamphlet collection, Grasshopper Inscriptions. She regularly contributes to poetry magazines, participates in, instigates and leads workshops, and reads her own poems in public. With a continuing curiosity about the ways and places poetry has worked in the past, she's most excited by where we've got to now, and where poetry can take us in future.
Jacqui Rowe was born in Birmingham where she still lives. She has published fiction and written a screenplay but her main focus is poetry, where she can be described as a "poetry activist" as well as a poet, running Poetry Bites, a regular event combining readings from leading poets with open mic and Making Poetry, a progamme of workshops, also working as a writer in schools. She has recently become a trustee of the Poetry Society. Her work has appeared extensively in magazines and anthologies and her collection, Blue, was published by Flarestack in 2007 and Apollinaire, a collection of versions of French war poems, was published by Perdika in 2009.