Hannah Storm (Taking the Flak) is an author, journalism safety expert and media consultant. Her flash fiction collection The Thin Line Between Everything and Nothing was published by Reflex Press and her memoir Aftershocks was shortlisted in the Mslexia 2021 awards. She is currently working on a novel inspired by her two decades working as a journalist. Hannah is the founder of Headlines Network, which promotes more open conversations about mental health in the media through training, tips and a podcast. She also works with newsrooms in wellbeing, safety and leadership. A keen marathon runner, Hannah lives with her family in Yorkshire.

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

Sylvia Ilahuka (M.B.L.A) is a Tanzanian writer now living in Uganda. Her work appears in publications such as Lolwe, Doek! the Aké Review, and Bandcamp Daily; she was also shortlisted for the inaugural Isele Nonfiction Prize. A graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Sylvia is the recipient of a Goethe-Institut artistic grant under which she produced photographic essays for the House of African Feminisms project.

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

Chris Beckett (Abebe, the Cook’s Son) is a Ted Hughes Award-shortlisted poet and translator who grew up in Addis Ababa in the last years of Haile Selassie’s reign. He has published two collections, Ethiopia Boy and Tenderfoot, plus the first ever anthology of Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English, edited/translated with Alemu Tebeje, Songs We Learn from Trees. This autumn he is leading a workshop on Childhood and Praise Poetry for the Poetry School.

Chris's work appears in Issue 9 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Hester van Hensbergen (Eating Tongues of Songbirds) is an intellectual historian and food writer with an interest in the relationship between food, politics, and environment. Her writing has appeared in Vittles, Eater, and Still Point Journal.

Hester's work appears in Issue 8 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Peter Pool (Lessons From The Western Front) was born in Hull and now lives in Northumberland, after a career in mathematics education – a substantial part of which was spent in Third World countries. Current interests include writing and gardening, in both cases the attraction lies in the observation of the minutiae of day-to-day life.

Peter's work appears in Issue 5 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Stacy E. Holden (Ah Ya Ween [Oh, Where Am I?]) is an Associate Professor of History at Purdue University, where her research focuses on the modern Middle East and North Africa. She has published scholarly articles on milling in Fez, historic preservation as a colonial policy, the politics of colonial monuments, and a variety of other topics that illuminate everyday life in the Arab world. She is currently writing a travel memoir tracing Edith Wharton’s 1917 trip to Morocco as a means of assessing midlife nostalgia. Learn more about her at stacyeholden.com

Stacy's work appears in Issue 4 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Laura Carroll (The Riddle of the Sphinx) is a writer/artist/international development wonk based in the Washington, DC area. She has lived/worked/ traveled in 20+ countries and counting. Nearly everything she writes relates to fairy tales in some manner, and she enjoys subtly queering everything she touches. Her previous (non-fiction) work has appeared in Global Impressions and Renaissance Magazine, as well as various travel writing websites. Most of her fiction and poetry still lives in a drawer.

Laura's work appears in Issue 4 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.