KEVIN CAHILL lives in Cork, Ireland. He divides his time between writing poetry and practising reiki. His work was published in The SHOp, Southword, Poetry Nottingham, Pennine Platform, Poetry Monthly, and Envoi and broadcast on RTÉ Radio 1's The Poetry Programme.
STUART B. CAMPBELL's poetry has been previously published in many magazines, e.g. The Rialto, Chapman, Ambit. He edited Things Not Seen - An Anthology of Contemporary Scottish Mountain Poetry (Aberdeenshire Council, 1999). His first collection, Navigation for Innocents, was published in 2002 by Dionysia.
VAHNI CAPILDEO was born in 1973, in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad. She came to England in 1991. Her work has appeared in Fire, Poetry Wales, Pulsar, Rain Dog, Southfields, Stand, Terrible Work, The Oxford Magazine, and Weyfarers. Salt published her first collection, No Traveller Returns, in 2003.
LUCINDA CAREY is a member of Poets Torbay and The Plymouth Language Group. Recent work was published in Poetry Scotland and THE SHOp.
VUYELWA CARLIN was born in South Africa in 1949 and brought up in Uganda. She has lived for many years now in Shropshire. Three collections to date: Midas' Daughter (1991), How We Dream of the Dead (1996), and Marble Sky (2002, all Seren). A fourth collection, The Solitary, will be published by Seren in 2008.
JEFFREY CARSON was born in 1944, and raised in NYC. Since 1970 he has lived with his wife, the photographer Elizabeth Carson, on the island of Paros, where he teaches at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts. Among his books are Poems 1974-1996 (Salzburg UP, 1997), Collected Poems of Odysseus Elytis (Johns Hopkins UP, 1997), The Temple and the Dolphin (Lycabettus Press, 1995), 49 Scholia on the Poems of Odysseus Elytis (Ypsilon, 1983), and Paros (Lycabettus Press, 1977). His poems also appeared in the anthology Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece (ed. Don Schofield; Truman UP, 2004).
MARK CASSIDY grew up on the Isle of Wight. Returning to his birthplace of Birmingham to study Biochemistry, he found many diversions, including punk music & politics. A few of his poems have appeared online in The Electric Acorn and Bonfire. He now lectures in Radiography at the University of Portsmouth.
CRAIG CAUDILL is a freelance writer and video installation artist. His chapbook four am writings was published by One-Legged Cow Press in 2005. He is currently working on his first novel.
PAULO CAVALCANTE was born in Rio de Janeiro, in December 1961. His art-works were published in several newspapers and magazines in Brazil. He participated in exhibitions of design and painting in Brazil and other countries. Now, he is working for O Globo, one of the most important newspapers in Brazil. In 2000, with three other artists, he launched Papel Brasil, an art magazine. He twice received the prize "The Best Newspaper Design" (Individual Porfolio and Award of Excellence) from the Society of Newspaper Design (SND).
GLEN CAVALIERO was born in 1927, of mixed Italian and north country English descent. Educated at Tonbridge School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he read Modern History. In 1965 he moved to Cambridge where he read for a degree in English, obtaining his doctorate in 1972. He now lives and teaches there as a member of the Faculty of English and a Fellow Commoner of St. Catharine’s College. He is the author of six collections of poems, including Ancestral Haunt (Poetry Salzburg, 2002) and, his latest, The Justice of the Night (Tartarus Press, 2007). A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he has contributed to numerous journals and periodicals, including The New Yorker, PN Review, Stand, and The TLS.
Born in 1949 in the United States, ALFRED CELESTINE emigrated to England in 1972 to concentrate on his poetry. To date, he has published two collections, Confessions of Nat Turner (Many Press, 1978) and Passing Eliot in the Street (Nettles Press, 2003). Currently he is planning to revive enRoute Press.
SRINJAY CHAKRAVARTI is a 31-year-old journalist, economist and poet based in Salt Lake City, Calcutta, India. His first book of poems, Occam's Razor (Calcutta: Writers Workshop, 1994), received the SALT literary award from a literary trust in Melbourne, Australia in 1995.
ANTHONY CHALK has been published in Mind Matters Review, Psychopoetica, Paris Atlantic, among others. He is best-known for writing parody and satirical poetry. He is currently the poetry section editor for Open Minds Quarterly.
MELANIE CHALLENGER graduated from Oxford University in 2000. Her work has been published variously in magazines and anthologies, including Fulcrum, Scintilla and Poetry Review. Her first libretto was published in July 2004 by Chester Music, and premiered by BBC Philharmonic Orchestra.
WILLIAM CIROCCO lives in San Francisco with his wife, the painter Louise Victor and their son, Billy. His most recent book of poems is aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007). A small booklet, Three Psalms for Robert Lax, was published by Kater Murr's Press in 2002. He is also the printer of fine art letterpress publications from hawkhaven press, which include works by Robert Lax, David Miller, Frank Samperi, and Thomas A. Clark.
ADRIAN CLARKE's publications include Ghost Measures (Actual Size Press, 1987), Spectral Investments (1991), Obscure Disasters (1993), Doing the Thing (1997), Millennial Shades (1998), Paradise Gardens (2000) and Skeleton Sonnets (all Writers Forum, 2002). He co-edited Angel Exhaust magazine with Stephen Pereira in the 1980s and 1990s and co-edited the anthology Floating Capital: New Poets from London (Potes & Poets Press, 1991) with Robert Sheppard. He currently co-runs Writers Forum press. A frequent performer of his poetry, he was also part of the performance duo Strèss, with the poet and composer Virginia Firnberg. He lives in Whitstable, Kent in the South of England.
R. D. COLEMAN is a writer and photographer who lives in New York. He has worked as an investigator, a welfare department caseworker, a union organizer, a gang worker on the city's Lower East Side, a union bureaucrat, a director of homeless shelters, and even a city commissioner. His work has appeared in Acumen, Envoi, Poetry Review, and Midwestern University Quarterly.
COLETTE CONNOR. Poet and Playwright. Born and lives in Dublin. Short-listed for a Hennessy Award 1994. Her work has appeared in various periodicals and anthologies including Poetry Ireland Review, Books Ireland, Cuirt 4, Chapman (Irish Issue), Writing Women etc. She was a participant in the 1999 National Writers' Workshop at NUI, Galway.
BELINDA COOKE's poems, translations and reviews have been published widely in journals and anthologies. Her first chapbook Resting Place was published by Flarestack in 2007 and Paths of the Beggarwoman: The Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva is forthcoming with Worple Press in Spring 2008.
FLAVIA COSMA is a Romanian-born Canadian poet. She has a Master degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest. She is an award-winning independent television documentary producer, director, and writer, and has published seven books of poetry, a novel and a book of fairy tales. 47 Poems (Texas Tech UP, 1992) received the ALTA Richard Wilbur Poetry in Translation Prize.
CLAIRE CROWTHER lives in London and is just beginning a PhD in contemporary English poetry at Kingston University. Her work has appeared in many journals including The TLS, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales and Shearsman. Her pamphlet, The Glass Harmonica, was published by Flarestack in 2003.
MICHAEL CURTIS grew up in Liverpool and now lives in Kent and on the Isle of Man. He has performed at numerous venues across Europe, run creative writing workshops for all ages and works in literature development. His seventh poetry collection, Long Haul, was published by Redbeck Press in 2005 and his first children's book, The Black Hound, was published by The Manx Experience in 2006.
ALEXANDER J. CUTHBERT. Originally from the East Neuk of Fife he is currently at the University of Glasgow. In 2003 and 2004 he was short-listed for the RSAMD Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize.