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.
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).
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 six poetry books published, including his novel-in-verse Pirouette of Earth (University of Salzburg, 1995). In the following year his one-actor play Cockerel Crowing Dawn (based on the life of the Russian composer Mussorgsky) was performed at Bradford Playhouse. He also works as an artist, and has illustrated eight poetry collections - including five of his own. His paintings are well-known through picture postcards. A CD ROM When It Was Autumn in Eden features both his paintings and his poetry.
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.
Originally from Normal, Illinois, CARRIE ETTER has been living in England since 2001 and is an Associate Lecturer in Creative Studies at Bath Spa University College. Her poems appeared in The Forward Book of Poetry 2005, PN Review, Poetry Review, Shearsman and The TLS.
KATY EVANS-BUSH was born in New York and has lived in London since the age of 19. Her poetry and criticism have appeared in journals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic (e.g. The Rialto, Limelight, Manhattan Review, and Magma). She is one of six poets featured in the anthology The Like of It (Baring & Rogerson, 2005). She is a regular contributor to the Contemporary Poetry Review.