CALEB NICHOLS is the first queer poet laureate of San Luis Obispo County California. Their poems have appeared in the New England Review, Poetry Wales, and many other places on both sides of the Atlantic.

Caleb is the author of Lithic: A Hyperballad, winner of the 2024 Harbor Editions Laureate Prize which comes out alongside an album of spoken word poetry, backed by music from Nichols’ last album, Stone Age is Now.

With a robust history of live musical performances spanning album releases in the 2020’s with iconic US label Kill Rock Stars, and back to the 00’s when Nichols was a member of celebrated neo-folk band Port O’Brien, this fusion of poetry and music feels like a natural culmination of Nichols creative output.

Nichols holds a PhD from Bangor University in North Wales and lives in Glasgow.

Nia Davies is a poet and performer experimenting with eco-embodied practice and intermedia. Her second collection of poems, Votive Mess, was published by Bloodaxe in 2024 and followed All fours in 2017. She was editor of Poetry Wales 2015-2019 and co-curated Poetry Emergency festival 2018-2019. Nia is currently making work on biophilic architecture, utopian breathing spaces and nocturnal worlds and collaborating as a co-researcher on the transdisciplinary project REPAIR: Retrofitting the Future – nature-based solutions for climate adaptation.  https://niadavieslit.com/

Rhys Owain Williams is a writer from Swansea. His work has been published in magazines and anthologies, and read at events, festivals and on national television. He is the author of the poetry collections That Lone Ship (Parthian, 2018) and Here’s What Happens When You Enter a Black Hole (Parthian, 2026). https://www.rhysowainwilliams.com/