Julie Zuckerman‘s (Abbaye de Valloies) debut novel-instories, The Book of Jeremiah, was published in May 2019. Her writing has appeared in CRAFT, Jewish Women’s Archives, Crab Orchard Review, SFWP Quarterly, Atlas & Alice, and Sixfold. A native of Connecticut, she now lives in Israel with her husband and four children. She is the founder of the Literary Modiin author series, connecting readers and writers of Jewish books. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading, running, biking, and trying to grow things in her garden.

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

Zachary D. Shell (To: remain.) lives in Denver, Colorado, where he teaches seventh grade Language Arts and dreams of going back to Ecuador. If he’s not singing with his barbershop chorus, you can find him writing at his favourite local coffee shop. Now. You can find him there right now.

Zachary's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa (In Conversation with…) is a poet and essayist. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2021 and described as ‘powerful’ (New York Times), and ‘captivatingly original’ (The Guardian). She is also author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Awards for her writing include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (USA), the Ostana Prize (Italy), a Seamus Heaney Fellowship (Queen’s University), and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

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

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.

Victor's work appears in Issue 7 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Helen Smith (In Conversation with…) is the author of An Uncommon Reader: A Life of Edward Garnett which was Sunday Times Literature Book of the Year, winner of the Biographers' Club Prize and a RSl/Jerwood award for Non-Fiction. The book was shortlisted for the Simply Foxed First Biography Prize. She has published articles in various publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to Literature in Translation. She lives in Norfolk and teaches non-fiction at the University of East Anglia.

Helen's work appears in Issue 6 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Heather Martin (Lee Child: A Geek and a Nerd in Many Ways) was born in West Australia and moved to London aged sixteen with the idea of becoming a musician. Four years of guitar-playing and a Venezuelan folk group later, she wound up reading languages at Cambridge instead. This led to lectureships in twentiethcentury Spanish and Latin American literature first at Hull, then at King’s College London, and thence to a career in teaching, writing and translating. While researching The Reacher Guy, her biography of Lee Child, she was based for a year at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University New York.

Heather's work appears in Issue 6 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Nearly City) is a writer and educator from Hackney, currently based in Norwich. While working as a secondary school English teacher, he completed his MA in Creative Writing and Publishing and is currently completing his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. His debut novel The 392 was released with OWN IT! in April 2019. His second novel Your Show, a novelisation of the early life and career of former Premier League football referee Uriah Rennie, is to be released with Faber in Spring 2022.

Ashley's work appears in Issue 6 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Susan Karen Burton (In Conversation with…) holds two doctorates, in history from the University of Sussex and in creative and critical writing from the University of East Anglia. She writes primarily about Japan, where she lived and worked for 14 years, latterly as an associate professor at several Japanese universities. Her work has appeared in Times Higher Education, The Telegraph, The Manchester Review, Words and Women, and Going Down Swinging. She is also the co-author of two books in Japanese. She is the winner of the 2020 New Welsh Writing Award’s Rheidol Prize for prose with a Welsh theme or setting, and is currently writing a book about the Welsh in Japan.

Susan's work appears in Issue 6 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Ian Thomson (Refugee Blues) is the author of an acclaimed biography of Primo Levi, a study of Dante and two prizewinning 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 5 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Margaret Hedderman (The Domain of Courageous Men) writes about the outdoors: environmental science, the use and abuse of wild places, and where we go from here. She is also the founder of the annual Women Outside Adventure Forum. Her experience as a backpacker, climber, and backcountry snowboarder informs and inspires her work. She is currently developing a collection of essays about self-propelled carbon neutral travel and climate change. Margaret holds an MA from the University of East Anglia and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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

Stephen Massil (Mr Speaker Bercow, Man of the People) held a senior position at the University of London Library, which he combined with postings at the Huguenot Library, Sir John Soane’s Museum, the National Trust and the Garrick Club. He is a Vice-President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Library Association; and a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In 2016 he gained an MA in Biography and Creative Non- Fiction from UEA, where his principal subject was Lost Cousins, chronicling a series of historical figures and their connections, with an autobiographical undertow.

Stephen's work appears in Issue 2 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.