Zoë Brigley is a Postgraduate Fellow in the third year of her PhD at the University of Warwick. Her first collection of poetry, The Secret, will be published by Bloodaxe in 2007. She was recently shortlisted for the FWSA Graduate Essay Prize and this year, she won the English Association's Poetry Fellow Award.
Sorcha Gunne is in the first year of her PhD at the University of Warwick. She holds a BA (first class honours) in English Literature and Anthropology and an MA (first class honours) in English Literature, both from the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Her current research focuses on narratives of social and sexual violence in postcolonial Southern African fiction.