El Chaltén by Alison Baxter

Alison Baxter (El Chaltén) has an MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in Creative Writing from Oxford Brookes University. Her doctoral thesis explored the ambiguous boundary between fiction and nonfiction in relation to her book, A Cornish Cargo: the untold history of a Victorian seafaring family, published in 2020. Alison is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has a particular interest in the Victorian era and the forgotten lives of so-called ordinary people. She is currently working on a new book based on a tragic story she found in the newspaper archive. She lives in Oxford.

Alison's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.