Joanna Harker Shaw is poet, writer and illustrator from Scotland, now settled in London where she is completing a creative writing PhD and teaching English Literature at St Mary's University. The Harker Poets are Joanna Harker Shaw, Margaret Harker and Greg Harker Shaw: three poets from one family. Margaret Harker is a former journalist, now writer and artists living in the English Lake district. Her daughter Joanna Harker is scholar and teacher in London. Joanna's partner Greg Shaw is a bookseller, formerly from the North of England, now living in London. 'Songs of the River' is their first collaboration and includes poems and illustrations from all three Harker Poets.