Bio – Chaucer Cameron
Chaucer Cameron is the author of ‘In an Ideal World I’d Not Be Murdered’, which will be published in the Spring of 2021. Her poetry has also been published in journals, anthologies and online. Her poetry-films have screened at festivals, universities and poetry events. Chaucer is co-editor of Poetry Film Live. www.chaucercameron.com

Bio – Helen Dewbery (UK) talks about, writes about and creates poetry films, and established Poetry Film Live, the online poetry film journal. Her poetry films have been shown at poetry events and festivals in the UK and internationally. She provides training and support for new practitioners of poetry film and has worked with poets to make collaborative work. Helen is co-director of The Big Poetry Weekend festival in Swindon, UK.

Bio – Eleanor Livingstone (Scotland) is a poet and editor as well as the Director of StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival (www.stanzapoetry.org). Her first full collection, Even the Sea was shortlisted for the 2010 inaugural London New Poetry award and is now in a second edition. Her other publications include The Last King of Fife A Sampler  and as editor Skein of Geese Migraasje: Versions in Scots and Shetlandic Bridging the Continental Divide Necessarily Looking Backward and The Arch.

Bio – Lucy English (UK) is head of the Creative Writing Research Centre at Bath Spa University and a Reader in Creative Writing.  Lucy is a spoken word poet and novelist.  She is co-director, with Sarah Tremlett, of Liberated Words, a CIC company, which creates, curates and screens poetry films. Their work has been screened many international poetry film festivals including Visible Verse, Canada; Weimar and Zebra,  Germany; Lisbon, Portugal; Newlyn in the U.K and Athens, Greece.

Bio – Sarah Tremlett (UK) MPhil, FRSA, SWIP is a poetry film-maker, videopoet, poet and theorist on philosophy of poetry film. She is co-director of Liberated Words Poetry Film events, editor of Liberated Words online, a judge at festivals, and author of leading publication The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books and University of Chicago Press, April 2021).  She has given presentations on her own poetry films worldwide.

Bio – Mary McDonald (Canada) pursues multidisciplinary practices encompassing text, photography, poetryfilm, music and sound, interactive AR (augmented reality) installations, and community participatory arts projects. Mary’s most recent project is Times in Sound, Letters of War, a 360 binaural sound work composed of over 700 fragments of WWI letters. She also created On the Margin of History, a prize winning digital work, with Syrian poet Mohamad Kebbewar and Serbian born poet, Natasha Boskic.

Bio – Sabina England (USA) is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and performance artist. She recently won a Jury Award for her short choreopoetry film, Deaf Brown Gurl. Sabina’s writings will be published in two books in 2021 by Mango & Marigold Press