Linda Russo is a creative-critical writer with an interest in ecopoetics, human/non-human landscape/land use, and experiential and ideological geographies. She is the author of 2 books of poems, including Meaning to Go to the Origin in Some Way (Shearsman) <http://www.shearsman.com/ws-shop/category/796-books/product/5177-linda-russo–meaning-to-go-to-the-origin-in-some-way> a chapbook of poems picturing everything closer visible, and a collection of hybrid-lyrical literary-geographical essays, To Think of her Writing Awash in Light. Participant, winner of the Bessmilr Brigham Poets Prize, is due out next month from Lost Roads Press. She lives in Inland Northwestern U.S., east of the Cascade Mountains in the State of Washington. You can find out more at her website inhabitorypoetics.blogspot.com.

Helen Dixon is a british/canadian/nicaraguan queer feminist writer, translator, poet and facilitator/teacher.  She has published two books of poetry and poetic prose: Flight Over the Abyss/Vuelo sobre el abismo (Nicaraguan Writers Union CNE Managua 2003) and Olimpia/Olympia (beyond borders, Reykjavik 2006). She has also been published anthologies: In our own voice (Womanspirit, Windsor, Canadá 1995), Memoria Poética (Festival Internacional de Poesía de Granada 2005), Nicaragua en las redes de la poesía (RENIES/anama 2008), Dos Orillas (Grup ELLEs, Barcelona 2008) y El Güegüense al pie de Bobadilla (Omar Garcia/Cony Palacios Managua, 2008); as well as in literary magazines, supplements and chapbook series in Canada, the Canary Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua Brazil and Cuba. She writes bilingual poetry (Spanish/English), poetic prose and fiction.

Eleanor Perry’s publications include the pamphlets ‘Meat ∙ Volt ∙ Interruption’ (Oystercatcher, 2015); and 'Venusberg’ (Veer Books, 2015). Recent work has also appeared in Blackbox Manifold and Para∙text. She has performed work at the Science Museum, Canterbury Roman Museum, the Sounds New Festival and the Canterbury Free Range series, while her visual work has been exhibited at The Tactic Gallery in Cork. She co-edits the online poetry zine DATABLEED with Juha Virtanen, and has recently completed a PhD in Poetry: Practice as Research at University of Kent.

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