KEN EDWARDS is active in music as well as writing. His collections include Intensive Care (Pig Press, 1986), Good Science (Roof Books, 1992), 3600 Weekends (Oasis, 1993), eight + six (Reality Street, 2003), and No Public Language: Selected Poems 1975-95 (Shearsman, 2006). He has been editor/publisher of Reality Street Editions since 1993. He works as an editor for the Royal College of Nursing in London.
MICHAEL EGAN is a poet from Liverpool. He is currently studying for a PhD on space in modern poetry. He is the author of a small collection of poetry, The River Swam (Paula Brown Publishing, 2005), and the editor of The Binturong Review.
HANNAH EKBERG was born in the American Midwest in 1976. Studied creative writing and French at Illinois State University. Her travels took her to Scotland, initially to work at Chapman Magazine, and then Paris where she participated in an ex-pat group of writers. Currently working on various writing projects in Geneva, Switzerland.
IRIS ELGRICHI spent seven years as a classical Japanese scholar at Kanazawa University, Japan. Currently, she is working as a Japanese translator in Israel. With British writer, Judy Kendall, she has translated haiku (Suiko / The Water Jar, Miyaji Eiko, Japan, 1999); Noh (extracts and adaptations of Kinuta performed in Kyoto, Kanazawa, and Austria, 1998-2000, won the 2000 9th Uchimura Prize; extracts from Michimori published in Equinox, 2002); and kyogen (Fumininai workshopped by Kataribe Theatre, Kanazawa, 2001).
A native New Yorker, FLORENCE ELON now divides her time between England and America. She has taught Creative Writing and Literature at the University of California (Berkeley) and as Visiting Writer at Yale, Northwestern, George Washington University. Her publications include Treble Poets 2 (with Daniel Halpern and Gerda Mayer; Chatto & Windus, 1975), Odd Birds (Sceptre, 1976), Self-Made (Secker & Warburg, 1984), and Expecting a Declaration of War (Hearing Eye, 2004).
ANA ELSNER was born in post-war Germany and educated in Europe before she decided to make her home in the US. Now retired, she is also engaged in translating the works of German-language poets into English. Her latest book of poetry is Ciphers of Uncommon Origins (InstaPLANET Press, 2007).
ODYSSEUS ELYTIS, born in 1911 in Crete of a Lesbian family, is widely recognized as Greece's greatest poet of the second half of the twentieth century. He published many volumes of prose and poetry, the first in 1939, the last from his last year. His book-length poem The Axion Esti has attained for the Greeks the status of a national epic. Elytis' chief poetic influences are Sappho and Pindar, Solomos and Kalvos, Hölderlin and French Surrealism. Especially renowned for his musical free verse and sunlit Aegean aesthetic, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979. He died in 1996.
IAN M. EMBERSON worked for many years as Music Librarian at Huddersfield, but has now retired. He has had ten books published, including his novel-in-verse Pirouette of Earth (Salzburg UP, 1995). He also works as an artist. His paintings are well-known through picture postcards.
STEPHEN EMMERSON, born in 1976, lives in Leeds. He has worked at an abattoir, a recycling plant and a bottle factory. Recently, his poems have appeared in Spine and Great Works.
MARGARITA ENGLE is a botanist and the author of The Poet-Slave of Cuba (Henry Holt, 2006), Skywriting (Bantam), and Singing to Cuba (Arte Público). Work appeared in journals such as Atlanta Review, Bilingual Review, California Quarterly, Caribbean Writer, Georgetown Review, and Hawai'i Pacific Review.
JOSÉ ENSCH was born in Luxembourg where she lives and works as a teacher. She is a widely published poet (her work has been translated into several languages) and a member of the Arts and Language section of the Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg. In 1998, her collection Dans les cages du vent (Editions Phi, 1997) won her the Prix Servais.
DANIEL EREDITARIO was born in Ohio in 1981 and later studied at Miami University. Various video poems of his can be found at Meshworks, an online archive of writing in performance, and other places on the web.
American expatriate CARRIE ETTER has been resident in England since 2001. Her first collection, The Tethers (Seren, 2009), won the London Festival Fringe New Poetry Award, while her second, Divining for Starters, was published by Shearsman earlier this year. She is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Bath Spa University.
NAUSHEEN EUSUF lives and teaches in Dhaka, Bangladesh. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University and her poems have appeared in Acumen, Orbis, Envoi, and Möbius, among others.
KATY EVANS-BUSH was born in New York and has lived in London since the age of 19. Her poems have appeared in journals like The Rialto, Stand, and Manhattan Review. Her debut collection, Me and the Dead, was published by Salt in 2008.