Writer, editor and plantswoman in the Fens. She is the author of six books, works extensively in collaboration with other writers and is creator and commissioning editor of DIRT plantable poetry which models earth-positive publishing as well as nurturing writing partnerships. She created and leads the 57 Poetry Collective, edited Magma 78: Collaborations, and is co-founder of the biodiversity action group On The Verge Cambridge. She leads writing retreats and teaches writing workshops. Most recently she has co-created Bending The Arc literary magazine for thrutopian writing and released her second poetry collection Kiss My Earth (Blue Diode). www.alicewillittspoet.uk

Katherine Stansfield is a multi-genre novelist and poet. She has taught creative writing for a wide range of organisations, supporting writers in their creative practice from ‘getting started’ activities up to completing book-length manuscripts and everything in between. These roles include Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University and the Open University, a Writing Fellow at the University of South Wales, and as a tutor at Cardiff University where she devised and taught courses for the university's School of Continuing and Professional Education. Katherine was also Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Cardiff University. She now works for Faber Academy as a lead tutor and course designer, is a mentor for Literature Wales – the Arts Council-funded writer development agency for Wales – and a regular tutor at Ty Newydd, the Welsh writers’ centre. Her two most recent books are The Mermaid's Call, a novel, and We Could Be Anywhere By Now, a poetry collection. She is currently working on a thrutopian novel set in her home of Cardiff over the next hundred years as the city adapts to flooding. She is a founding editor of the thrutopian magazine Bending The Arc.