Victoria Fieldqualified as a Poetry Therapist with the US National Association for Poetry Therapy in 2005 and has worked in a wide variety of health and social care settings. She is a former Director of Survivors Poetry and had two periods chairing Lapidus, the UK’s organisation for reading and writing for health and well-being. She has co-edited three books on therapeutic writing, most recently Writing Routes (Jessica Kingsley, 2010) and has published two collections of poetry: the second, Many Waters was based on a year-long residency at Truro Cathedral. She was an Associate Artist of Hall for Cornwall who have produced two of her plays. She will be a Hawthornden Fellow in 2012.

Graham Hartill - poet, workshop facilitator, lecturer. He studied at the Universities of Wales and Massachusetts, and has since given countless workshops and classes in the UK, USA and China. Co–founder of Lapidus, the UK–wide association for the promotion of creative writing in therapeutic contexts, Graham has worked in settings as varied as hospitals, mental health centres and with the elderly.  He is writer-in-residence at HMP and YOI Parc, one of the biggest prisons in Europe and he teaches on the MSc. course "Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes" for the Metanoia Institute.  His selected poems, Cennau’s Bell was published in 2005 and his latest book A Winged Head by Parthian Books in 2006.