VICTORIA FIELD works as a writer and poetry therapist in a variety of health, education and community 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 is an Associate Artist of Hall for Cornwall who have produced two of her plays.  She qualified as a Poetry Therapist with the US National Association for Poetry Therapy in 2005 and 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, a Scottish Arts Council Writing Fellow 1990-92 and an Arts Council of Wales Writer’s Bursary recipient 1993, 1999 and 2006, 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, the biggest prison in Britain. His selected poems, Cennau’s Bell was published in 2005 and his latest book A Winged Head by Parthian Books in 2006.