Abi Curtis is Professor of Creative Writing at York St John University. She has won an Eric Gregory Award and Somerset Maugham Award for her poetry collections, Unexpected Weather (Salt, 2009) and The Glass Delusion (Salt, 2013). She has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing and is inspired by art, psychology, science and the environment. Her first novel, Water & Glass, a speculative climate-change fiction was published by Cloud Lodge Books in 2017.
In 2022 Abi's short fiction was commended in the Bridport, Fish and Alpine Fellowship Prizes, and a poetic sequence on the subject of a medieval anchoress, set to music by David Lancaster, was performed by the Ex Corde Vocal Ensemble. Elina Braslina studied Printmaking and Graphic Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia. Since 2014 she has illustrated more than twenty titles, including Moon Juice by Kate Wakeling, which was her international debut.
She has been nominated for numerous awards in Latvia, and has won the Zelta Abele (Golden Apple Tree) National Prize for Book Art twice. She was awarded the International Janis Baltvilks Prize in 2017. You can visit Elina's website and see more of her illustrations here: www.elinabraslina.com
In 2022 Abi's short fiction was commended in the Bridport, Fish and Alpine Fellowship Prizes, and a poetic sequence on the subject of a medieval anchoress, set to music by David Lancaster, was performed by the Ex Corde Vocal Ensemble. Elina Braslina studied Printmaking and Graphic Arts at the Art Academy of Latvia. Since 2014 she has illustrated more than twenty titles, including Moon Juice by Kate Wakeling, which was her international debut.
She has been nominated for numerous awards in Latvia, and has won the Zelta Abele (Golden Apple Tree) National Prize for Book Art twice. She was awarded the International Janis Baltvilks Prize in 2017. You can visit Elina's website and see more of her illustrations here: www.elinabraslina.com