Paul Dodgson is a writer, composer, radio producer and teacher.  He has written and produced many plays for BBC Radio 4 including recently Binge Drunk Britain – the Musical and Windscale. Theatre work includes music and lyrics for productions of The Nutcracker and Alice Through the Looking Glass at Theatre Royal Bath.  Paul recently finished a two year post as Writer-in-Residence at Exeter University where he specialized in life-writing, a genre he now teaches internationally.  He was a Hawthornden Fellow in 2010 and his radio memoir You Drive Me Crazy was transmitted in January this year. (2012)

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.