James Roderick Burns

Born 1972 in Great Britain
Living in Edinburgh, Scotland

James Roderick Burns' short-form collections 'The Salesman's Shoes' (tanka) and 'Greetings from Luna Park' (sedoka) are published by Modern English Tanka Press. He is managing editor of the UK journal Other Poetry, and lives and works in Edinburgh.

Tracy Davidson

Born 1970 in Paisley, Scotland
Living in Warwickshire, England

Colin Stewart Jones

Born 1968 in Manchester, England
Lives in Dingwall, Scotland

Colin does not regard himself as an academic but rather an autodidact who is talented in transforming what he has found, or found out. In a past life, he was the editor in chief of Gean Tree Press which produced Notes from the Gean:haiku journal and many books on haiku.

Xenia Tran

Born: 1962, The Netherlands
Residence: Scotland, UK

Xenia is a linguist, artist, writer, poet and photographer who lives with her husband and adopted animals in the Scottish Highlands. She writes haiku, haibun, tanka, tanka prose and tanka sequences as well as western poetry forms and free verse poetry and plays the handpan.