U. A. Fanthorpe (1929-2009) was a prolific English poet who produced nine full-length collections of poetry. She was awarded a CBE in 2001 and the Queen's Medal for Poetry in 2003.

John Greening is a versatile scholar, critic, editor, playwright, and teacher. He has authored a half-dozen studies in British and Irish poetry and has also written, produced, and published a number of libretti and plays.

A. E. Stallings is a US-born poet, critic, and translator who lives in Greece. She has published four volumes of poetry, and a selected ( This Afterlife, from FSG), and three books of verse translation, most recently an illustrated version of the pseudo-Homeric The Battle Between the Frogs and the Mice. She has received numerous awards, including an NEA grant in translation, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations. She studied classics at the University of Georgia and at Oxford University, and is currently the Oxford Professor of Poetry.