Joanna Ashwell (born 1972 in the United Kingdom), poet, currently self-employed as a writer and a spiritual worker. Her poetry books include Between Moonlight (2006, haiku), Every Star, Threads and Tanka Strings (2023), and River Lanterns (2023, cherita). Has gained recognition in all the leading British haiku contests as well as in competitions in the United States, and Bulgaria. Had a haiku shortlisted in the Touchstone Awards. Serves as a selector for the tanka journal Gusts. Resides in County Durham, England.

John Hawkhead, British poet who has been composing haiku, senryu, haibun, and haiga for more than 20 years. A haiku of his won 1st Prize in The Haiku Foundation’s HaikuNow! Awards (2013) and another was shortlisted in THF's Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems (2018). He has also been honored in the Lincoln Underground Haiku Contest 2016, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival 2019, the 2020 “AHA” Haiku Contest of the United Haiku and Tanka Society; the Snapshot Press Haiku Calendar Competitions in 2020 and 2021; and the 2021 Setouchi Matsuyama Haiku Contest. His book, Small Shadows, was released in 2016. With more than a thousand published poems, Hawkhead has been listed on “The European Top 100 most creative haiku authors” for the past ten years. He resides in Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire, UK.

John Rowlands (born September 24, 1947, Aberystwyth, Wales), taught art for 20 years before becoming art education officer at the National Museum of Wales (1990–1996). Rowlands began writing haiku in 1992. He was awarded the Museum of Haiku Literature Award in 2016. Published cylymau tywod / knots of sand and has been included in two Red Moon Press anthologies. Author of “Transcreation,” Wales Haiku Journal, concerning haiku in relation to Welsh language poetics and aspects of translation. Member of The British Haiku Society and Haiku Canada. Currently working on a digital haiku collection in Welsh. Resides in Tremadog, Gwynedd, Wales.

Judy Kendall (born in the 1960s, England) poet, short story writer, and playwright. Reader in English and creative writing at Salford University, specializing in visual text and poetry, and runs the university’s MA program in creative writing. Published four poetry collections. Lectured in English at Kanazawa University and cotranslated a collection of Miyaji Eiko’s haiku, Serves as essays, reviews, and bilingual haiku editor for Presence. Resides in West Yorkshire.

Julie Mellor (born Penistone, South Yorkshire, U.K.), British poet and editor, working as a teaching assistant. Has been publishing her poetry and prose in magazines and journals since 1998, and her pamphlet, Breathing Through Our Bones, was a winner in The Poetry Business 2011 Book & Pamphlet Competition. Her haikai have appeared in the major British and American journals, the annual Contemporary Haibun 18, and To Live Here: A Haiku Anthology. Serves as reviews editor for Presence. Resides in Sheffield, England.