Matt Bates is the editor of Muswell Press's LGBTQi+ list. Golnoosh Nour was born in Tehran. Her debut poetry collection Sorrows of the Sun was published to acclaim in 2017. Golnoosh now teaches at Birkbeck and Reading University and works as a translator. Her first collection of short stories The Ministry of Guidance has been shortlisted for the 2021 Polari Prize. Sarah Beal and Kate Beal are the Publisher and co-Publisher at Muswell Press.