Kenneth R. Ross, parish minister at Netherlorn in Argyll and Hon Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, is Chair of the Scotland Malawi Partnership. From 1988 to 1998 he lived, with his family, in Zomba where he served as Professor of Theology at the University of Malawi and as a minister of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP).
Charles Wright received the National Book Award for Poetry in 1983 for "Country Music", the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1995 for "Chickamauga", & the Pulitzer Prize & National Book Critics Circle Award in 1998 for "Black Zodiac".