Milena Williamson received her PhD from Queen's University Belfast and was the Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2023. Her debut collection Into the Night that Flies so Fast came out with Dedalus Press in 2024. She is a regular host of the Wednesday Group, a weekly poetry workshop at the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's. 

The Wednesday Group, or a version of it, has been running at Queen's for decades and has contributed enormously to the writing community in Belfast by providing a space for rigorous and generous feedback. Readers this evening include Wednesday Group regulars Shakeema Edwards, Lesley Anne Evans and John James Reid. 

Philip Metres is a professor of English at John Carroll University and the director of the University’s peace, justice, and human rights program. He is the author of many books, including most recently Fugitive/Refuge and coming this autumn, a new work of essays Dispatches from the Land of Erasure.