Mona Arshi's poetry collections include Small Hands (Liverpool University Press, 2015), Dear Big Gods (Liverpool University Press, 2019) and Mouth (Chatto & Windus, 2025). She was poet in residence at Cley Marshes, Norfolk, in 2020 and a fellow in the creative arts at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Karen McCarthy Woolf was poet in residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights as a postdoctoral Fulbright Scholar at UCLA, and is an RSL/Jerwood Poetry Fellow. Her books include An Aviary of Small Birds (Carcanet Press, 2014), Seasonal Disturbances (Carcanet Press, 2017) and Top Doll (Dialogue Books, 2024).