Laura Powell grew up in South Wales and studied at Warwick University. She later completed an MA at Goldsmiths, University of London, for which she was granted a Scott Trust Bursary from the Guardian Media Group, and the Faber Academy novel writing course. Several of her poems and short stories have been published in small literary magazines and anthologies, and she was awarded a New Writer's Bursary from Literature Wales in 2013.
Katy Sobey trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and has since worked in theatre, television, radio and audio. Theatre credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Woodlanders and King John. On television Katy featured in BBC 1’s The Indian Doctor. For BBC Radio 4, she has appeared in several radio plays and various episodes of Poetry Please. Katy has also recorded numerous audiobooks, including the Isadora Moon series and various novels by Fiona McIntosh and Sheila Newberry.