William Sieghart has had a long career in publishing and the arts. He established the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 1992 and founded National Poetry Day in 1994. He was awarded a CBE in the 2016 New Year Honours for services to public libraries. His Poetry Pharmacy began touring in 2014; since then, and particularly since the publications of the hugely beloved The Poetry Pharmacy (2017) The Poetry Pharmacy Returns (2019) and The Poetry Pharmacy Forever (2023), he has prescribed thousands of poems up and down the UK over hundreds of hours of in-person consultations.

Amelia Richards has worked in the creative industries over the past two decades, running spoken word production companies Intelligence Squared and Letters Live as well as in policy in local (Greater London Authority) and national government (Department of Culture Media and Sport). She was a director of the Creative Industries Federation, the UK wide membership organisation which represents the creative industries. She is a trustee of Forward Arts Foundation

Lili Becker studied Creative Writing with a focus on poetry at the University of Southern California, where she was awarded the J. Boudreaux Poetry Fellowship and the Silverman Poetry Scholarship. After moving to London, she interned at the Forward Arts Foundation during the summer and autumn of 2024. She has since joined The Poetry Pharmacy team, helping to bring its work to new audiences. Lili runs communications and social media as well as assisting on live show production.