John Waddington-Feather is a retired schoolmaster and author who belongs to the West Yorkshire 'school' of writers. In 2002 he was awarded the American DeWitt Romig Prize for his poetry. He co-directs the imprint Feather Books and edits The poetry church poetry quarterly. He was the first chairman of the J.B.Priestley Society and is now a vice-president. He now lives in Shrewsbury where he taught, and has ministered in the prison there for the past thirty years.