Kim Rooney (61) has written poetry, nonfiction and short fiction. She graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2004 with an MA in Life Writing. You can find her at www.unrevisedfragments.com
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Tom Hutchings (Dappled Halflight) is our in-house graphic designer and cover artist. He's a freelance graphic designer specialising in print design, and is generally very friendly and approachable despite having a toddler who has forgotten how to sleep. Have a look at his work on www.thorngraphicdesign.com
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Emilio Williams (Fade to White) is a bilingual (Spanish/ English) award-winning writer and educator. His critically acclaimed plays have been produced in Argentina, Estonia, France, Mexico, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Emilio has lectured around the world and taught creative writing in several U.S. universities. He holds a BA in Film and Video and a MFA in Writing. He is a resident playwright and faculty member at Chicago Dramatists, and divides his time between Chicago and Paris. www.emiliowilliams.com
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Helen Tookey (North and South) is a poet and writer based in Liverpool, where she teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. She has published two poetry collections with Carcanet Press, Missel-Child and City of Departures, and is currently working on a third. She is collaborating with writer and musician Martin Heslop on text and sound work developed from a residency in 2019 at the Elizabeth Bishop House in Great Village, Nova Scotia, and is also working on a creative non-fiction book about her engagement with the work of Malcolm Lowry and Elizabeth Bishop and, through them, with place and landscape.
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Sharon Tolaini-Sage (My Mother’s House) Sharon has been Lorna Sage’s Literary Executor since 2000. She is an Associate Professor at Norwich University of the Arts, where she specialises in working with students on the cultural and contextual aspects of digital games. In addition to her role as an educator, Sharon is a translator and writer for Pulp magazine. Since 2017 she has been an Ambassador and an Advisory Board member of Women in Games. In 2020 she was a highly commended finalist in the Times Higher Education Awards’ Most Innovative Teacher of the Year.
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Giles Scott is the author of the memoir If In An Echo (forthcoming in 2022 from Upset Press), and is currently at work on a series of essays about teaching – Flogging a Dead Horse: Classic High School Books and the Life Left in Them. Scott’s writing has appeared in Catapult, The Millions, Ninth Letter, and The Washington Post. Born in the north of England, he has called the U.S. home for the last two decades, and currently teaches high-school English in the San Francisco Bay area. Find Giles on Instagram @giles__scott or at his website gilesscott.com
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Victor Sage (Writing, Reading and Witnessing) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the School of Literature Drama and Creative Writing at UEA. He is the author of one collection of short stories, Dividing Lines (Chatto), and two novels, A Mirror For Larks (Secker) and Black Shawl (Secker). He has written extensively on the Gothic tradition and is the editor of Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas for Penguin Classics. Recent work has been on the European Gothic.
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Ivan Pope (Absent Without Leave) writes fiction and nonfiction, often straddling the edges of the two. His interest is in human geography and how we come to be what we are. He is currently undertaking a creative writing PhD at Plymouth and has a non-fiction creative writing MA from UEA. He has been an internet entrepreneur and journalist and his first novel, The Takers and Keepers, was published in March 2021.
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Katrina Naomi’s (The Attack) third poetry collection, Wild Persistence (Seren), received an Authors’ Foundation award from the Society of Authors. Her poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground and Radio 4’s Front Row. Katrina has published four pamphlets of poetry, including the Japan-themed Typhoon Etiquette (Verve Poetry Press); she was the first poetin- residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum and was highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry. Katrina has a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths and tutors for Arvon, Ty Newydd and the Poetry School. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk
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Stella Maria Murphy (Big Shoes), or Mia (as most people know her), is from Dublin, Ireland. She is happily married and has a large unconventional family full of wonderful children and grandchildren who she wouldn’t change for the world.
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Karin Hedetniemi (Starshine on the Shenandoah) is a writer and street photographer on Vancouver Island, Canada. She's inspired by ordinary beauty in quiet places. Her work is published/forthcoming in Prairie Fire, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Sky Island Journal, Sunlight Press, Moria, CutBank, Parentheses, Barren Magazine, and other publications. Karin won the 2020 non-fiction contest by the Royal City Literary Arts Society. Find her at AGoldenHour.com
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Julie FitzGerald (Nevada: Rest Stop, NV167) enjoys writing about place and its effects - how it shapes people’s lives, their attachments to each other, and their sense of self. She is currently working on Sagelands, a memoir exploring wellness, specifically desert wilderness and ecotherapy, whilst studying for an MA in Biography & Creative Non- Fiction at the University of East Anglia. Previous work features in The Mechanics’ Institute Review. Originally from the Wirral, Julie is based in London. Find her on Twitter @JulieJulesJule
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Freya Dean (Reflections on my Grandfather) is co-editor of this magazine.
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Bella Braxton (Ducks for Ducks) is a junior philosophy major at Agnes Scott College.
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Christopher Bigsby (The Golden Age), emeritus professor American Studies at UEA, is an academic, biographer and novelist. His latest books are Staging America: 21st-Century Dramatists and Ishmael, a sequel to Moby Dick.
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Rob Atkinson (Returning) is a zoologist by training, with a background in academia and the animal welfare charity sector. He was Head of Wildlife at the RSPCA and Chief Executive Officer of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and now works as a consultant, focusing on creating an elephant sanctuary for Europe's captive elephants. In 2015 he gained an MA with distinction in Creative Non-fiction at UEA and won the Lorna Sage prize. Rob is a Hawthornden Fellow and this is his second piece published in Hinterland.
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