Felicity Plunkett is an award-winning poet and critic living on Wangal land in Sydney, Australia. Her books are  A Kinder Sea  (University of Queensland Press),  Vanishing Point  (UQP) and  Seastrands  (Vagabond Press’ Rare Objects series). She edited the collection  Thirty Australian Poets  (UQP). Felicity has a PhD from the University of Sydney, was first an academic, then Poetry Editor with University of Queensland Press for a decade. She is a widely-published reviewer and essayist. She is Poetry Editor with  Australian Book Review  and teaches poetry masterclasses with Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Photo credit: Simona Janek. 

Boris Dralyuk is the author of My Hollywood and Other Poems (Paul Dry Books, 2022), editor of 1917: Stories and Poems from the Russian Revolution, co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry, and translator of volumes by Isaac Babel, Andrey Kurkov, Leo Tolstoy, and other authors. His poems have appeared in the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, The Hudson Review, The Hopkins Review, The Spectator, Best American Poetry 2023, and elsewhere. Formerly editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Review of Books, he is currently a Tulsa Artist Fellow, editor-in-chief of Nimrod, and professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Tulsa.

Robin S Ngangom is a bilingual  poet and translator who writes in English and Manipuri. His  collection, Words and the Silence  (1988), introduced a distinctive voice from India's Northeast, and My Invented Land  (2023) deepens his exploration of memory, belonging, and loss. Invited to the UK Year of Literature and Writing in 1995, his poems appeared in The New Statesman, Verse, Kunapipi, Planet: the Welsh Internationalist, The Literary Review, and the Penguin Book of Indian Poets.