KATRINA NAOMI's first full collection, The Girl with the Cactus Handshake (Templar Poetry, 2009), was shortlisted for the 2010 London New Poetry Award. She was the first writer-in-residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum and a short collection of her poetry, Charlotte Brontë's Corset, was published by the Brontë Society in 2010. Katrina's first pamphlet, Lunch at the Elephant & Castle won the 2008 Templar Poetry Competition. She was brought up in Margate and lives in south London.
CHARL-PIERRE NAUDÉ grew up in the windswept coastal city of East London, on the so-called "eastern frontier" of South Africa, and later studied Philosophy and Classical Culture at the University of Stellenbosch. He settled in Johannesburg, where he now works as a journalist and copy editor. His first volume of poetry, Die nomadiese oomblik [The Nomadic Moment] (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1995) won the Ingrid Jonker Prize 1997. His second volume is due out shortly.
ROBERT NAZARENE is founding editor of Margie/The American Journal of Poetry. He is the author of Church (IntuiT House Poetry Series, 2006). Recent poems appeared in AGNI, Chelsea, The Journal of the American Medical Association, and Prairie Schooner.
HELENA NELSON runs HappenStance Press, which specialises in pamphlet poetry and was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award in 2009. She reviews regularly for a number of UK magazines, edits the magazine Sphinx, and is a Scribner's British Writers contributor. Her first collection Starlight on Water was published by Rialto in 2003.
ALBERTO NESSI was born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in 1940. He is the author of a number of books, including the novels La Lirica (1998) and La prossima settimana, forse (2009), and the collections of poetry Rasoterra (1983), Il colore della malva (1992), and Blu cobalto con cenere (2000; all Casagrande). He has also edited an anthology of texts and testimonials about the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland and created books in collaboration with artists. Most of his works have been translated into German and French.
ALEC NEWMAN was born in Essex in 1975. He is currently studying for a degree in English Literature at Salford University.
ANDREW NIGHTINGALE is 34 and lives and works in the south west of Cornwall. He has had a number of poems in UK small magazines most recently in Orbis and Neon Highway.
KATE NOAKES is a poet living in Reading, Berkshire. She has an MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of Glamorgan. Her work has been published, among others, in Iota, Mslexia, Other Poetry, and Tears in the Fence. Her most recent collection is The Wall Menders (Two Rivers Press, 2009).
JAMES NORCLIFFE is a New Zealand poet recently returned to NZ after three years in Borneo. In 2000 he was the Burns Fellow at the University of Otago, Dunedin. Recent work has appeared in The Malahat Review, The Harpweaver, Queen's Quarterly (Canada), Landfall (New Zealand), and The Baltimore Review (USA).
TOM NOLAN (b. 1962) was brought up and educated in Lancashire and Western Australia. He spent most of the 1980s either unemployed or engaged in non-skilled labour. He began studying for a BA in French and German at Oxford in 2001 and graduated in 2005.
HENRIK NORDBRANDT, born in 1945 in Frederiksberg, read Oriental Languages at Copenhagen University and various universities abroad. Among the many prizes that he has received are The Danish Academy Major Prize (1980), The Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (1990), The Danish Booksellers' Golden Laurels (1995), and The Nordic Council Prize for Literature (2000). He has published twenty-five volumes of poetry, one novel, two collections of essays, two children's books and a Turkish cookery book. He has had two collections in English translation: Selected Poems, translated by Nadia Christensen and Alexander Taylor (Curbstone Press, 1978) and My Life, My Dream, translated by Robin Fulton (Dedalus, 2002). The latter includes poems from books published in Danish from 1977-2001. He lives mostly in Turkey, Greece and Spain, with periodic visits home to Denmark.
ALICE NOTLEY was born in 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona. She received a BA from Barnard College, in 1967, and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1969. She is the author of over thirty books of poetry. She was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In 2001 she received an Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. Her most recent books are Grave of Light: Selected Poems 1970-2000 (Wesleyan UP, 2006), Alma, or the Dead Women (Granary, 2006), and In the Pines (Penguin, 2007). She lives in Paris.
JULIA NOVAK studied English Literature in Vienna and Edinburgh, and Arts Management at Goldsmiths College in London. She runs the annual "Vienna Lit Festival". She is currently studying for a PhD at the University of Vienna and working on a book on reading groups (LIT-Verlag, 2007).