Sarona Abuaker
Sarona Abuaker is a poet, artist, and educational outreach worker. Her poems have been published in Berfrois, MAP Magazine, the Hythe, and elsewhere. Her mixed-media essay Suture Fragmentations – A Note on Return was published in December 2020 with KOHL: A Journal for Body and Gender Research. She is based in London. Why so few women on the street at night is her debut poetry collection (the87press, 2021).
Kat Addis
Kat Addis has published poems in magazines including The Chicago Review, Blackbox Manifold, Fatberg, and Poetry. Her first book of poems, Space Parsley, was published by the87press in 2021. She also makes things experimentally, like costumes, hats and videos, and does academic research on Renaissance literature.
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is the author of two critically acclaimed books, What If Latin America Ruled the World? (Bloomsbury, 2010) winner of the Frantz Fanon Award, and Story of a Death Foretold (Bloomsbury, 2013) shortlisted for the 2014 Bread & Roses Award. More recently, In Defence of Armed/Art Struggle (Bogota: UTadeo, 2019), “A Future for the Philosophy of Liberation” in Decolonising Ethics (Pennsylvania University Press, 2020), and the poem/novel Night of the World (The 87 Press, 2021). Professor at the University of London. Fellow of the RSA. His “Peace & War” Reformation and the docu-video “Art & Fire: A Journey in Five Films”, with Hay Festivals, are available online.
Danny Hayward
Danny Hayward has published books of poetry with Materials, Veer, Shit Valley and others. A volume of his essays on poetry, Wound Building, was published in autumn 2021 by Punctum Press and can be downloaded for free at the Punctum website. He maintains the out-of-print poetry pdf archive Free Trials.
Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil is the author of six full length works of poetry/prose, including How to Wash a Heart (2020), Ban en Banlieue (2015) and Schizophrene (2012). She is writing towards a new British edition of Incubation: A Space for Monsters, forthcoming from Prototype in 2023. Fellow of Churchill College, she now lives in Cambridge.
Christopher Kirubi/Dove
Christopher Kirubi/Dove is a London-based artist and poet, their debut poetry collection wildplassen is forthcoming with the87press in 2023.
Fran Lock
Fran Lock is the author of numerous chapbooks and ten poetry collections. Her most recent chapbook is Forever Alive (Dare-Gale Press, 2022), and her most recent collections are Hyena! Jackal! Dog! (Pamenar Press, 2021) and White/ Other (the87press, 2022). Fran is the newly appointed Judith E. Wilson Poetry Fellow at Cambridge University. She is an Associate Editor at Culture Matters, a member of the new Editorial Advisory Board for the Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, and she edits the Soul Food column for Communist Review. Fran Lock is a some-time itinerant dog whisperer, the author of seven poetry collections and of numerous chapbooks, most recently White Other (the87press, 2022). Fran has recently completed her Ph.D. at Birkbeck College, University of London, titled, Impossible Telling and the Epistolary Form: Contemporary Poetry, Mourning and Trauma, and she currently teaches at Poetry School.
Karenjit Sandhu
Karenjit Sandhu is a poet and artist. Her second poetry collection Poetic Fragments from the Irritating Archive (Guillemot Press) is a limited-edition box set. Previous publications include young girls! (the87press) and flowers won’t grow (Sampson Low). Her work also appears in Magma, Judith: Women Making Visual Poetry and Writing Utopia. Her artists' books have been collected by the Tate, National Poetry Library and UWE. Karenjit’s performance work has led to collaborations with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Flat Time House and Camden People’s Theatre (London), Arnolfini (Bristol) and Galerie Eric Dupont (Paris). @k_ren_sandhu
Verity Spott
Verity Spott is the author of several poetry collections, including Hopelessness (the87press, 2021), Poems of Sappho (Face Press, 2019) Click Away Closed Door Say (Contraband, 2017), We Will Bury You (Veer, 2017) and Gideon (Barque Press, 2014).
Jessica Widner
Jessica Widner is a writer and academic. Her work has appeared in Extra Teeth, Gutter Magazine, and The Cardiff Review. Interiors, published in 2022 by the87press, is her first novel.
