Louise Welsh is the author of eleven novels including The Cutting Room, Plague Times Trilogy & To the Dogs. She has written libretti for four operas, including Anthropocene (music Stuart MacRae). Louise is co-director (with Jude Barber) of the Empire Café. Together they are creators of the podcast, Who Owns the Clyde. Louise is Professor of Creative Writing at University of Glasgow, FRSL, FRSE @louisewelsh00

Zoë Strachan is an award-winning novelist. As an editor, she has collected six new writing anthologies, and she also publishes short stories, essays and criticism. She is Reader in Creative Writing at University of Glasgow & has a PhD in Scottish Literature. Works for stage include Panic Patterns (with Louise Welsh) & an opera adaptation of The Lady from the Sea (music by Craig Armstrong) for the Edinburgh International Festival, which won a Herald Angel Award. She makes sound art/experimental radio with composer Nichola Scrutton @zoestrachan