Amy Charlotte Kean is a weed, known for her persistence and unpredictability, much like the buttercup, or dandelion. She's an award-winning advertising strategist, innovator and creative from Essex who's worked with some of the world's most wonderful brands like Nando's, Sony and Jean Paul Gaultier to do unexpected cool shit that benefits society. Her number 1 bestselling debut book, The Little Girl Who Gave Zero Fucks is a feminist fairy tale and ode to everyday bravery, hated by The Spectator and Trump supporters and loved by women and men who see the power in worrying less. Her poems, rants, reviews, flash fiction and opinion are littered across websites like The Guardian, Huffington Post, Glamour Magazine, Disclaimer, Ink, Sweat&Tears, Abridged and Burning House Press alongside her regular column on creativity for Shots magazine. She's a university lecturer, founder of DICE, an inclusion initiative in the events space and ambassador for Writing Through, a charity that builds confidence through conceptual thought.
Isabelle Kenyon is a northern poet and the author of This is not a Spectacle, Micro chapbook, The Trees Whispered (Origami Poetry Press) and Digging Holes To Another Continent (Clare Songbirds Publishing House, New York) and Potential (Ghost City Press). She is the editor of Fly on the Wall Press, a socially conscious small press for chapbooks and anthologies. In 2020, she will be published by Indigo Dreams Ltd (Poetry Chapbook 'Growing Pains' and Wild Pressed Books (Short Story 'The Town Talks'). She was shortlisted for the Streetcake Experimental Writing Prize 2019 and for The Word, Lichfield Cathedral Competition 2019. Her poems have been published in poetry anthologies by Indigo Dreams Publishing, Verve Poetry Press, and Hedgehog Poetry Press. She has had poems and articles published internationally. She will headline at Cheltenham Poetry Festival 2020 and has opened Coventry Cathedral's Plum Line Festival. She has performed at Leeds International Festival as part of the 2019 'Sex Tapes' and for Apples and Snakes' 'Deranged Poetesses' 2019. She is a fierce dog lover and a confessed caffeine addict.
Jack Wallington is a landscape garden designer specialising in nature led, beautiful spaces with a contemporary, light touch to hard landscaping, furniture and features. He views gardens and public green spaces as a mini-ecosystem and living, dynamic works of art that must also be practical, to be enjoyed and create lasting memories for people, too. Throughout his life Jack has studied different forms of art, and has a current interest in line drawing for its ability to quickly capture energy and form. In all of his work, from pictures to gardens, colour is absolutely critical, used to set the tone and mood. As a writer, his debut gardening book, Wild about Weeds: Garden Design with Rebel Plants was named The Times Gardening Book of the Year, exploring the virtues of plants we've long ripped out and cast aside. In House of Weeds, his quick ink sketches created on iPad are weaved around Amy's poems that challenge our view of the world.
