Remzije Sherifi was for many years a broadcast journalist with Radio Gjilan in Kosova. She came to Great Britain with her family in 1999 as part of the humanitarian evacuation of refugees fleeing Serbian paramilitary forces. For health reasons she remains in the City of Glasgow but is in regular contact with family and other journalists who have returned. She now works as Development Officer for the Maryhill Integration Network, part of a UK wide network of organisations focussing on Asylum Seekers, their plight and their place in British society. Co-author Robert Davidson is the author of a wide body of work. Born and raised in Glasgow he has for many years made his home in Highland Scotland Foreword author George Szirtes was born in Budapest in 1948 and came to Great Britain as a refugee in 1956. His first book, 'The Slant Door', was published in 1979 and won the Faber Memorial prize the following year. In 1982, he was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and, since then, has published several books and won various other prizes including the T S Eliot Prize for 'Reel' in 2005. His work has been translated into numerous languages.