Kathleen Jamie is an award-winning Scottish poet and essayist, and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. Her writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, as shown in her acclaimed essay collections Findings and Sightlines.

Her collections of poetry have won many awards, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Costa Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award, the Forward Poetry Prize and the Saltire Society Book of the Year Award. In 2018, Jamie was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. She lives in Scotland.

Don Paterson was born in Dundee in 1963.

He is the author of Nil Nil (1993); God's Gift to Women (1997; winner, T. S. Eliot Prize and Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize); Landing Light (2003; winner, T. S. Eliot Prize and Whitbread Prize for Poetry); Rain (2009; winner, Forward Prize for Best Collection); and most recently 40 Sonnets (2015; winner, Costa Poetry Award).

In 2009 he was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry