Richard Skelton (Apparitions, Dust) is an artist from northern England. His work – writing, music, artworks, films – is rooted in the particularities of specific landscapes, from the moors of Lancashire to the fells of Cumbria, the karst hills of western Ireland to the fjords of eastern Iceland. He is codirector, with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson, of Corbel Stone Press, one of the foremost British small presses dedicated to publishing work that is focused on landscape and the natural world. For the past half-decade he has lived on the rural border of Scotland and England.

Richard's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Anna Vaught (What I saw will not be what I see) is a novelist, essayist, short fiction writer, editor, secondary English teacher, mentor, campaigner and author of four books, including 2020’s Saving Lucia and Famished. Her work is published in journals, anthologies and national press and she has been a monthly columnist for The Bookseller. Her new novel, The Zebra and Lord Jones, is on agency submission, while a book on writing, The Alchemy, is launching with Unbound. Anna’s second story collection, Ravished, is published by Reflex Press this year as well as her memoir, These Envoys of Beauty, in 2023. Anna speaks as a guest university lecturer and is a tutor for Jericho Writers.

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

Born in New York, Stephanie Tam (Speaking in Tongues) is a writer, researcher and audio producer. She has worked for various radio shows and media companies, including Freakonomics, Radiolab and First Look Media. Her writing has been featured in a number of outlets including The Believer, Behavioral Scientist and Slate. Before journalism, she explored her love for storytelling and the social sciences through two masters in world literatures and social policy respectively at the University of Oxford as a Daniel M. Sachs Scholar. She also graduated with distinction from the MFA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia.

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

Bonnie Lander Johnson (Treasure) is Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Newnham College, Cambridge. Her academic books on early modern literature are Chastity in Early Stuart Literature and Culture, Blood Matters, Shakespeare’s Plants and The Cambridge Handbook to Literature and Plants. She is now working on a biography of Shakespeare, a memoir and a fenland farming novel. In 2022 her short story ‘Idolatry’ was short-listed for the V.S. Pritchett Prize.

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

Constance Kresge (Maintaining An Ambivalent Art: Caring) works as a freelance business consultant and virtual Chief of Staff. She has been taking writing classes off and on for years and is thrilled to be published for the first time in Hinterland. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, toddler and demanding but lovable rescue dog. When not creating to-do lists, spreadsheets or trying to write, she loves to hike – preferably in the Rocky Mountains.

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

Tom Bailey (Throwing the Dice Again) grew up in London and studied Creative Writing at Boston University. He was awarded a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in 2020, and is currently trying to put together his first pamphlet. His poems have been published in bath magg, The Kindling, Hawk & Whippoorwill, The Cormorant, and the Munster Literature Centre’s Poems from Pandemia Anthology.

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

Alexander Williamson (On the Beach) is a writer and photographer. He has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Birkbeck, University of London, and a PhD in English from Birkbeck. His first book is, Laughing Stock, an autofictional memoir. His poems have appeared, sporadically, in Aesthetica, Aspidistra, Dream Catcher, Magma, Orbis and South Bank Poetry. He is currently working on a novel about Henry Miller titled The Cancerian.

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

Cynthia Lewis (Who Will Believe Thee?) is Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Davidson College in North Carolina and has published widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, most recently The game’s afoot: A Sports Lover’s Introduction to Shakespeare. Her creative nonfiction has been published in The Hudson Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, Southern Cultures, The Massachusetts Review and Charlotte Magazine. Four essays have been cited a ‘Notable Essay’ in the Best American Essays series; Return Engagement: The Haunting of Hamlet and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. won Shenandoah’s Thomas Carter Essay Prize for 2016; and Body Doubles won the Merringoff Prize for nonfiction.

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