Alhierd Bacharevic grew up in a linguistically-torn country. Despite growing up speaking Russian, Bacharevic rebelled by speaking and writing in Belarusian. In the 1990's he was the founder and vocalist of the first Belarusian language punk band, Pravakacyja ('Provocation').  He is now an award winning author and his works have been translated into French, German, Czech, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Russian, Polish and Lithuanian.

Brought up in post-industrial Lanarkshire, Petra Reid did Law at Edinburgh University and worked as a solicitor in general practice, and more recently as a welfare rights adviser. She studied Fine Art while raising a family and developed her interest in poetry through Dada. She does site specific performances at one-off events. She has wandered the east coast of Scotland with a west coast accent for forty years. This is her only qualification for feeding other authors' works through the mincer of Scots, or at least her version of what may, after all, be a dialect without army or navy. 

Jim Dingley is a respected translator and expert in European languages and studies, with associations with Imperial College London and University College London. He has a lifetime's worth of experience translating Belarusian into English.