Naomi Woddis has recently published a pamphlet ‘Life is Music’. She is also a regular contributor to the online spoken word information reservoir Metaroar.com, and has interviewed influential performers and poets including Lemn Sissay, Charlie Dark and Sophie Wooley. You can read more of her writing at Curses and Riots and at The Ghost in the Ring.
Cherryl Floyd-Miller is a poet, playwright and fiber artist living the southern U.S. She has held writing fellowships or received grants from Poets & Writers, Inc., Idyllwild Summer in Poetry, Caldera, the Vermont Studio Center, Cave Canem and the Indiana Arts Commission. Floyd-Miller is the author of three volumes of poems: Utterance: A Museology of Kin (2003), Chops (2004, Nexus Press) and Exquisite Heats (August 2008, Salt Publishing).
Joan Woddis
Joan Woddis is the mother of Naomi Woddis. She will celebrate her 80th birthday later this year but has not yet retired in any sense. She is an unrepentant old-style Socialist but attempts to keep an open mind to new ways of thinking. She practises privately as an Art Therapist.
Edem Agbotui
Edem Agbotui is a Graphic Designer and Illustrator by vocation. By no mean is this the full extent of his work and is always looking to diversify via other creative mediums.
Britical is “British, Critical and a Wee Bit Brutal” and is written by S. Khatun Huber. A writer, commentator & panelist on Sirius radio she is also a rescue professional specializing in wilderness search & rescue and urban mass casualty scenarios. She is part of the Red Cross Disaster Reserve, loves her Gucci bag, and would really, really like a dog.
Saqib Deshmukh
I have been a writer since 1984 ever since I bunked off school to do tour a GLC funded play around London boroughs. Additionally I have also been a Music promoter, a DJ, an Arts trainer/ Tutor , and managed bands such as The Kaliphz, as well as setting up theatre companies AIR theatre (1984-1989) and Aajkal Theatre (1989- 1993 & 1999-2001). Currently developing Indus Valley Funk Productions, a multimedia arts initiative and working on my first novel. In my spare time I like to eat and sleep.
Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux (b. January 10, 1952 in Augusta, Maine) is an American poet.
Her fourth book of poems, Facts about the Moon (W. W. Norton & Company) is the recipient of the Oregon Book Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for the most outstanding book of poems published in the United States in the previous year.
Laux is also author of three collections of poetry from BOA Editions, Awake (1990), introduced by Philip Levine, What We Carry (1994), finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Smoke, (2000). She is co-author, with Kim Addonizio, of The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (W.W. Norton, 1997). Her work has appeared in the Best of The American Poetry Review and The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and has been included twice in Best American Poetry.
Mariana Zavati
I was born in Romania and I have been living in the UK for many years. I have been writing poetry since high-school, which I continued to do during and after my university degree. I graduated with a MSc in Phylology from Al.I.Cuza University of Iasi Romania and did post-graduate studies at the University of Leeds, Goethe Institut Rosenheim and L’Ecole Normale Superieure Auxerre. I also wrote 2 novels and I currently write articles and I translate from the poetry of less known UK poets for Romanian literary magazines. I have translated into Romanian poems by Fleur Adcock, Katrina Porteous, Denise Riley and Adrian Green. I am a member of the Uniunea Scriitorilor din Romania/ The Romanian Union of Writers.
Andy Thibault, author of Law & Justice in Everyday Life, is a columnist for Law Tribune Newspapers, adjunct professor of journalism at the University of Hartford and managing partner of Murzin-Thibault Investigative Group LLC. You can find him at northwestern bloggers and ctyoung writers.
Shane Solanki is a poet, producer, performer, and prankster of Indian root and British fruit, often seen on city horizons wearing a veil and sprinkling rose petals onto the disenchanted immigrants and disenfranchised locals below. His music has been produced by Mercury Prize winner Talvin Singh, and his distinctive style of writing helped form the brand identity of renowned record label Ninja Tune. His first short film was directed by ‘The Full Monty’ director Peter Cattaneo. In 2006, his company ‘the D’Archetypes’, a multimedia theatre ensemble, toured India with the British Council. Recent performance credits include Don Letts’ ‘Speakers Corner’. He writes and performs for the band ‘Last Mango in Paris’, whose acclaimed debut album will be released this autumn.
Brian Jackson is a keyboardist, flautist, singer, composer, and producer. He is best known for his collaborations with Gil Scott-Heron in the 1970s.
Rosie Knight
Rosie Knight is a spoken word poet, youth worker and Marx brothers fanatic. She shadow coaches on the London teen slam project and is constantly inspired by the young people she works with.
Chrystine Bennett
Chrystine Bennett is an American living in London. She has been contributing to Poetry Mosaic since it’s inception.
Andreas Grant
Andreas Grant is a poet, performer, painter and promoter. His charming reputation precedes him wherever he ventures.
Sean is an underground sound
Maura Flynn
Maura Flynn works in Public Health. An intrepid traveller recently returned from Syria, whose ideal world would be peopled with those who cherish the human spirit.
Warsan Shire is a London based writer, social commentator and performance poet who has made a name for herself on the artistic activist scene.
