Robert Minhinnick
has been editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 1997. His latest collection of poems After the Hurricane appeared in 2002 and his translations of modern Welsh poetry The Adulterer’s Tongue in 2003, both from Carcanet. A new collection is forthcoming. Minhinnick's latest collection of essays, To Babel and Back appeared from Seren in 2005 and won the Wales Book of the Year, 2006. His first novel, Sea Holly, appears from Seren in 2007.  He has twice been the recipient of the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem and of a Cholmondeley Award. Robert helps to administer the environmental charity, Sustainable Wales. 

Jim Perrin
In his youth one of the most notable British rock-climbers, Jim's first book, Menlove (1985), was first outright winner of the Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature. He won this again, as well as the Mountaineering History Prize at Banff Mountain Festival, with The Villain (2005), and his most recent book, The Climbing Essays, won the Mountain Literature Prize there in 2006. He has written five other collections of essays, a best-selling book on Snowdonia, and River Map (2001), an essay on love and landscape. His collection Spirits of Place (1997) was hailed by Jan Morris in the Guardian as a remarkable book by a remarkable and undervalued writer ... a sort of rucksack Thoreau. Professor M Wynn Thomas in the New Welsh Review called him "the most singular, and the most outstanding, prose-writer of present-day Wales”, and The Observer, in reviewing Travels with The Flea (2002), "the pre-eminent writer on the British landscape". Jim is the Guardian's Country Diarist for Wales, and writes monthly columns in TGO and Climber magazines.