JOE DUNTHORNE was born and brought up in Swansea. His debut novel, Submarine, is published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. It won the Curtis Brown prize and has been translated in to ten languages. A film of the book is being directed by Richard Ayoade and produced by Warp Films. His debut poetry pamphlet is published by Faber and Faber. His stories, poems and journalism have been published in The Guardian, The Independent, Financial Times, The Sunday Times, Vice and Poetry Review. He co-organises a monthly night of literary miscellany, Homework, in East London. He is a striker for the England Writers' Football Team. Now twenty-eight, he lives in London.

TRISTAN HUGHES was born in Atikokan, Canada, where he lived for two years before moving to Wales.  He completed a PhD thesis on Pacific and American literature at King’s College, Cambridge. His first published story won the Rhys Davies Short Story competition in 2002 and appeared in Ghosts of the Old Year (Parthian, 2002). He has written three novels – The Tower (Parthian, 2003), Send My Cold Bones Home (Parthian, 2006) which was on the 2007 Wales Book of the Year list and Revenant (Picador, 2008). In 2010, he spent a month in Minsk on a writer’s residency organised by Translators’ House Wales and the Halma network and following this he spent a further month on a residency at the International Writers and Translators’ Centre in Rhodes.