Neal Zetter is a London-based comedy performance poet, author and entertainer who has been using poetry writing and performance to develop literacy, confidence, self-expression and creativity in 3 to 103 year-olds for more than twenty years. Neal makes poetry fun and accessible for the least engaged students but can also stretch and challenge the most able. Neal lives in London.

Emily Ford is a freelance illustrator from Cumbria and collaborated with Stevie Westgarth to create Troika's Aife and Stray: Seven Style Secrets for a Perilous Party. She has recently illustrated Riding a Lion, Coral Rumble's poetry collection, for Troika.