Amina Alyal Author & Editor

Amina Alyal has published co-edited academic collections including Victorian Cultures of Liminality (Cambridge Scholars, 2018), and Classical and Contemporary Mythic Identities (Edwin Mellen, 2009), and creative writing collections including Everyone’s a Seed (Yaffle Press, 2026) and Tasseomancy: Creative Responses to AI (The Tea Set, 2024). She has published two solo poetry collections and several collaborative collections. She writes theatre reviews and programme notes. Based at Leeds Trinity University, she has co-written and performed for words and music with Oz Hardwick and Karl Baxter, Kaminari UK, the Japanese drumming group, and Leeds Lieder.

Oz Hardwick is an international award-winning poet, and Professor of Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University. He has published “maybe fifteen?” full collections and chapbooks, most recently Retrofuturism for the Dispossessed (Hedgehog Poetry Press, 2024), as well as countless individual poems in journals and anthologies. With Anne Caldwell he edited The Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry (Valley Press, 2019) and Prose Poetry in Theory and Practice (Routledge, 2022); and with Cassandra Atherton he edited Dancing About Architecture and Other Ekphrastic Maneuvers (MadHat Press, 2024).