Laura Knott (Screw You, Descartes) studied environmental art and film/ video at MIT, and political science and dance at Duke University. Her work has been published in the Boston Art Review and Duke Magazine, and by the MIT School of Architecture + Planning and the MIT Museum. Laura has edited a volume on Sky Art, curated exhibitions, produced a live-streamed work in which dancers danced simultaneously in 11 countries, and performed at the documenta exhibition. Her videos have appeared in Mexico, Greece, and the United States. A native of Mississippi, Laura grows food in her garden in Massachusetts, where she lives.

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

Alice Kent’s (Something Happened) first short story ‘Len’s Whole Life’ was selected for the Words and Women anthology. She was longlisted for the Grazia Bailey’s Fiction First Chapter Award. Alice wrote the foreword for the pamphlet Walking Norwich: The Real and Imagined City, which featured in The Guardian and on BBC Radio 4’s Open Book. She co-edited the 2021 pamphlet Dialogues, which includes Vahni Capildeo on Julian of Norwich and Valur Gunnarsson on W.G. (Max) Sebald. Alice studied Politics at the University of Birmingham and has a Masters in European Journalism having studied in Aarhus and Utrecht. She works at the social innovation foundation, Nesta, and lives in Norwich with her partner, two kids and cat, Mishka.

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

Pune Dracker (Gator Love) is a writer, editor and social justice warrior in New York City. She has an MFA in Nonfiction/Poetry from The New School, where she conducted psychogeographic experiments and wrote and performed Fluxus-inspired scores, and an MA in Design Research, Writing & Criticism from the School of Visual Arts.

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

Jenn Ashworth’s (Robinson Daniel Jennifer Crusoe) first novel, A Kind of Intimacy, was published in 2009 and won a Betty Trask Award. On the publication of her second, Cold Light, she was featured on the BBC’s The Culture Show as one of the UK’s twelve best new writers. In 2019 she published a memoirin- essays, Notes Made While Falling which was a New Statesman Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. Her latest novel is Ghosted: A Love Story. She lives in Lancashire and is a Professor of Writing at Lancaster University.

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

Sally Gander (The Pen: A Collection) writes fiction and creative nonfiction. Her work has appeared in Litro, Backlash Press, Porridge, The Lincoln Review, The Blue Nib and Elsewhere. For many years she taught Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and now teaches students from across the world at Advanced Studies in England. You can read her blog and more of her published work at sallymgander.blog

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

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

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

Melissa Holbrook Pierson (Memory City) is the author of five books, including The Place You Love Is Gone and The Perfect Vehicle. She also co-edited and contributed to the anthology O.K. You Mugs: Writers on Movie Actors. She writes from, and sometimes about, the Catskill Mountains of New York, which is where she moved when New York City would no longer have her, or vice versa.

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

Bella Braxton (How to do the Job) is a sophomore at Agnes Scott College. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia and works at a grocery store.

Bella's work appears in Issue 3 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Spencer Darr (The Night’s Content Moderation Watch) is a non-fiction writer currently focusing on the relationships between people, love and technology. His work has appeared in Atlas Obscura and The Nervous Breakdown. A first generation college grad from Pecan Hill, Texas, USA, he is pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing with an emphasis in Literary Nonfiction at University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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