Primers: Volume Three

Aviva Dautch teaches at the British Library and Bethlem Museum of the Mind (the original Bedlam). She has an MA in creative and life writing from Goldsmiths and a PhD in poetry from Royal Holloway. Her poems are published in magazines including Agenda, Modern Poetry in Translation, The North, The Rialto and The Poetry Review. Romalyn Ante grew up in the Philippines. She recently joint-won the Manchester Poetry Prize, and was awarded Platinum Award for Poetry by the Creative Future Literary Awards. She was also commended in the Battered Moons Poetry Competition. She is currently a Jerwood/Arvon mentee 17/18. She hopes to publish her debut collection in the near future. Sarala Estruch is a British writer, poet, and researcher. After All We Have Travelled is her debut full-length poetry collection. Her pamphlet Say (flipped eye, 2021) was a Poetry School Book of The Year and was described as an 'extraordinary debut' by the Poetry Book Society. A finalist of the Primers mentorship scheme and a fellow of the Ledbury Poetry Critics programme, her poetry, creative non-fiction, and reviews have been widely published in outlets including The Poetry Review, Wasafiri, and The Guardian, and featured on BBC Radio 3's The Verb. Sarala is currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Liverpool, where she is a recipient of the JIC Davies Studentship. She lives in London.