Jon Stone is a Derbyshire-born writer, editor and researcher. He won a Society of Authors Eric Gregory Award in 2012 and his debut collection, School of Forgery, (Salt, 2012) was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He has written several shorter poetry books and a monograph, Dual Wield: The Interplay of Poetry and Videogames (DeGruyter, 2022). He teaches writing and publishing at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. Kirsten Irving is a Lincolnshire-born, London-based poet and editor. Her work has been published by Salt, Happenstance and Guillemot, widely anthologised and thrown out of a helicopter. She has won the Live Canon International Poetry Prize, judged competitions, and taught courses on folklore in poetry, and currently edits for First Story.

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