Leo Vanderpot (Brief Lives) lives in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. In recent years, his poems, stories and essays have appeared in fewer journals than he anticipated. He therefore bows to the exceptionally engaging discernment of Hinterland. Praise or slate him: leov10571@yahoo.com
Leo's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Ian Thomson (Blue Murder) is the author of an acclaimed biography of Primo Levi, a study of Dante and two prize-winning works of reportage, Bonjour Blanc: A Journey Through Haiti and The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica. He also edited Articles of Faith: The Collected Tablet Journalism of Graham Greene. Ian is the recipient of the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize and the W.H. Heinemann Award.
Ian's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Daniel Uncapher (Yocknapatafa) is a Sparks Fellow at Notre Dame, where he received his MFA. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Chicago Quarterly Review, The Carolina Quarterly, Penn Review, Tin House Online, and others.
Daniel's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Rebecca Stott (The Fall) is a novelist, broadcaster and historian. She has written several books of creative nonfiction including Darwin and the Barnacle, Darwin’s Ghosts and most recently a memoir, In the Days of Rain, which won the Costa Biography Prize 2017. Rebecca is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and is currently writing a novel set in the ruins of sixth-century Londinium.
Rebecca's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Josef Steiff (Flashpoint) is a former licensed social worker from Appalachia. Josef creates films, installations, performance and written work that reflect his interest in the ways that people struggle to make sense of impersonal events. His films have been exhibited in the United States, Europe and Asia; his creative non-fiction has appeared in Batayan, the forthcoming Pikeville Review and via the independent publishing house Open Court.
Josef's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Scott Russell Morris (Just Like Home) is a faculty member at the University of Utah Asia Campus. His work has appeared in Brevity, The Chattahoochee Review, Superstition Review and elsewhere.
Scott's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Saloni Prasad (The Women At The Station) is from Surat, India. She writes about life, people and culture; likes to listen to Indian Classical music and can often be spotted talking to herself. She recently completed her Masters in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. In her former life, she was a project manager and an electrical engineer. Saloni blogs at www.theturquoiseink.com
Saloni's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Damian Le Bas (In Conversation With) is a writer and occasional filmmaker from West Sussex. His first book, The Stopping Places: a Journey through Gypsy Britain, is an exploration of Gypsy and Traveller history told through a year spent travelling around the country's old nomadic halting sites. It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-fiction, was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week', and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year.
Damian's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Justin Kern (Second Time Around) is a former daily news reporter who currently lives in Milwaukee. His words have appeared in Utne Reader, Great Lakes Review, Forth, Wanderlust Journal, Longshot Island, Milwaukee Record and a trio of anthologies from Belt Publishing. Justin is also a lifelong amateur musician who throws horseshoes as a phony spiritual exercise.
Justin's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Michael Kineman (American Boys Are Fast But Not As Fast As Ginger Boys) is an Anglo-American, born in the Midwestern United States but raised and educated in the British West Midlands. During his twenties, Michael worked in human rights law and taught English in the Far East before studying creative writing at the University of East Anglia. Memory, thirdculture identity and religious doubt are common themes in his writing. He is currently at work on his first book, The Fields We Used to Roam.
Michael's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Joshua Jones (Dreamscape) is an illustrator based in Cambridge, who specialises in traditional media and dabbles in digital illustration. Alongside his editorial artwork, Josh has collaborated on a wide range of projects, including band posters, indie board games and scientific infographics. If he’s not drawing Josh is probably playing D&D, or walking his dog. Find him online at www.joshuajonesprojects.com
Joshua's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Helen James (Cullerfornia) began her career as a photographer in the North West of England before working as an educator at the National Portrait Gallery, Open Eye Gallery and Photoworks. She currently works as an associate lecturer at the University of Westminster, where she teaches ‘writing photography.’ Helen’s own writing focuses on the interplay of words and images; and often responds to the landscapes that have featured as backdrops in her life. Her son Calumn James is a surfer and maker of wooden things based in North Shields.
Helen's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Peter Goulding (Hogiau Pen Garret) is a climber and writer from the North of England. He has spent most of his working life in kitchens, pubs and on building sites. He now lives in rural Norfolk. He is working on Slatehead, a history and memoir of the North Wales climbing scene.
Peter's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Eileen Favorite (O, Garbage Men! and Holy Well) Eileen’s first novel, The Heroines, was translated into six languages. Her essays, poems and stories have appeared in many publications, including The Toast, Triquarterly, The Rumpus and Diagram. She has received fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council for poetry and for prose and currently teaches writing and literature classes at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Eileen's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Randal Doane (Confidence Game) works as a copywriter in Northeast Ohio. Randal is the author of the award-winning Stealing All Transmissions: A Secret History of The Clash, which is a love story about four lads and a city named New York, as well as a segment of rock'n'roll history. He's written on music and culture for Alternative Press, Louder Than War and Harper's. Chilled martini glasses remain his favorite social media platform.
Randal's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Scott Coykendall (Sabbatical Report) is a professor at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, where he teaches Journalism, Technical Communication, and other writing courses. His poems have appeared in COG, Black Fox Literary Magazine, The Cossack Review, and The 2River View, among others. This is his first published non-fiction piece.
Scott's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Amy Cotler (Hazeri) worked as a chef, cookery teacher, food writer and advocate in New York and New England, where she was the founding director of Berkshire Grown, an early farm-to-table initiative that received national recognition. She has authored five culinary books and hosted a web column for The New York Times. Forthcoming is a novel-length memoir, Unexpected Pleasures, Tales from a Culinary Alchemist. Amy currently lives in Mexico. Visit her at amycotler.com
Amy's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Susan Karen Burton (A Hostess of the Floating World) lived and worked in Japan for 14 years before completing doctorates in history and in creative-critical writing. Her work has appeared in Times Higher Education, The Telegraph, The Manchester Review, Words and Women and Going Down Swinging. She is the co-author of two books in Japanese and, in 2018, a work in progress, Gaijin: Modern Japan Through Western Eyes, was shortlisted for the Tony Lothian Prize.
Susan's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
