Artist, poet & filmmaker Amanda Holiday completed the Poetry MA at the University of East Anglia in 2019.

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Her chapbook 'The Art Poems' was published April 2018 as part of New Generation African Poets (Tano) a chapbox series by Akashic books (US). Her text ‘A Posthumous Conversation about Black Art’ was published in the first edition of Critical Fish Journal.

Her poems have appeared or will appear in Prairie Schooner (US), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Lolwe, Anomaly and she has written for Frieze. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize and founded the UK’s first crowdfunded poetry press Black Sunflowers right here!

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She is a currently Techne AHRC doctoral student in Poetry, Race and Art at the University of Brighton.

Geffen Bankir is a poet, musician, and artist who has studied music, law and poetry. She completed the MA in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the University of East Anglia as the recipient of the Bryan Heiser Memorial Bursary. She has given readings of her poetry at various venues and festivals in the UK.

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A peer of Holiday's at UEA, Bankir became involved in early stage planning of Black Sunflowers Poetry Press and has taken on the role of Editorial Associate -- planning publishing strategy, drafting submission proposals and reading all the poetry chapbook and anthology submissions from authors from across the globe.