Andy Blackford enjoyed careers as a rock guitarist and advertising creative director before applying himself seriously to writing. He is the author of two novels and many children's books and was a longtime columnist on Runner's World magazine for which he ran the world's toughest foot race, the Marathon des Sables. Nowadays he works as a prison chaplain and is training for Ordination in the Triratna Buddhist Community. He took up writing poetry when he re-connected with his A Level English teacher, John Foggin, after losing contact for more than 40 years. He is married and lives in Cambridge. John Foggin, a retired teacher, advisor and lecturer (Andy Blackford was one of his students, long ago), lives in West Yorkshire, writes a poetry blog: the great fogginzo's cobweb and jointly organises the Puzzle Poets Live in Sowerby Bridge. His poems have won first prizes in competitions judged by three different Poets Laureate. He has authored four pamphlets and chapbooks. A prize winner in the 2016 Poetry Business Book and Pamplet Competition, his first full collection, Much Possessed was published by smith