Karen Kao (Hats) is the winner of the 2022 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest and a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, VERA, and Best of the Net. Her debut novel, The Dancing Girl and the Turtle, is the first of a quartet of interlocking novels set in Shanghai. Karen’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Kenyon Review, Brevity Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review and others. For more information on Karen and her work, please visit www.inkstonepress.com

Karen's work appears in Issue 13 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Amy Cotler (Joy (Or, It’s Time)) worked as a culinary professional before turning to creative writing. Her short pieces have appeared in various literary magazines, including Hinterland. She was a leader in the farmto- table movement, and lectured widely on the subject. Cotler also taught at Culinary Institute of America and The Institute for Culinary Education, hosted food forums for The New York Times, authored five cookbooks, and created more than 1000 recipes for Joy of Cooking and other publications. Cotler lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her husband, an artist, and their dog, Remy.

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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

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

Raised in South London, Dave Wakely (Eating Cornflakes with Patrick Moore) has worked as a musician, university administrator, poetry librarian and editor in cities across Europe. His short stories and poems have been shortlisted for the Manchester Fiction and Bath Short Story awards, and appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including most recently Impossible Archetypes, The Lonely Crowd, Lunate, Prole and We’re All In It Together: Poems for a disUnited Kingdom (Grist Books). One of the organisers of the Lodestone Poets and Milton Keynes Literature Festival, he lives in Buckinghamshire with his husband and too many books, CDs and guitars. He tweets as @theverbalist.

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

Elizabeth Norton (We Circle Silently About the Wreck) is a writer living in London. She is currently completing her creative writing MA at Birkbeck and is working on her first novel. She works in the criminal justice sector.

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Joe Moran (Noli Timere) is a Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. His books include Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness (Profile/Yale University Press, 2016/2017), First You Write a Sentence: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life (Penguin, 2018) and If You Should Fail: A Book of Solace (Penguin, 2020).

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Jarred McGinnis (In Billions of Years the Sun will Swallow the Earth) was chosen by The Guardian as one of the UK’s ten best emerging writers. His debut novel The Coward was selected for BBC 2’s Between the Covers, BBC Radio 2’s Book Club and listed for the Barbellion Prize. The French edition won the First Novel Prize and was selected for the prestigious Femina prize. His current project The Mountain Weight won the 2023 The Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award.

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Edvige Giunta (Wanna Dance?) was born in Sicily and lives in the United States. She is the author of Writing with an Accent: Contemporary Italian American Women Authors and co-editor of six anthologies, including The Milk of Almonds: Italian American Women Writers on Food and Culture, and Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire. Her most recent writing appears in December Magazine, Pithead Chapel, Paris Lit Up, Ocean State Review and Memoir Magazine, among others. She is Professor of English at New Jersey City University. www.edvigegiunta.com.

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

Laura Dobson (How To Care for a Rose) lives in Devon where she is currently completing an MSc in Psychology. She is the proud owner of almost forty thriving houseplants and relishes sharing the therapeutic potential of creativity with young people. She has recent work in Ellipsis Zine, WestWord, The Phare Literary Magazine and The Birdseed Magazine. She can be found on Twitter @laurarose_13.

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Munizha Ahmad- Cooke (The Right Thing) currently works as a charity administrator and freelance copyeditor. She grew up in Harrow, north-west London, and has lived in Cambridge since 2005. She has published some poems, book reviews and articles, and has worked in academia, publishing, politics and the charity sector. She recently co-edited Edgewords, an anthology of creative writing to raise money for The Edge Café in Cambridge.

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Rebecca Thomas’s (A Mouse in Reagan Country) work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, ZYZZYVA, The Massachusetts Review, among other places, and she has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a creative board member for the Ms. Aligned anthology series. Originally from Orange County, California, she now lives and teaches writing in Charlottesville, VA.

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

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.

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Linda Mannheim (Departing)is the author of three books of fiction: Above Sugar Hill, Risk and This Way to Departures, which was shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize in 2020. Linda's work has appeared in The Nation, Granta, Catapult Story, 3:AM Magazine, Ambit, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, and Sight & Sound. She has also broadcast work for BBC Witness and KCRW Berlin. Originally from New York, she lives in London and is a PhD researcher at the University of Westminster.

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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.

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Anthony Head (Life Is a Great Entanglement) is a writer and editor who has lived for much of his life in Tokyo. His articles have been published in numerous journals, including History Today, The Edinburgh Review, The London Magazine and the TLS. His poetry has appeared in Outposts, Orbis, The Frogmore Papers, Acumen and other journals. He is the editor of three volumes of the letters and diaries of John Cowper Powys and several collections of essays by Llewelyn Powys.

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Hannah Garrard (1989) writes creative non-fiction from her home in Norwich, where she lives with her partner and son and currently works as a programme manager at the National Centre for Writing. In 2015 she completed an MA in Creative Non-Fiction at the UEA, where she wrote an account of the Liberian civil war with help from the insights and recollections of the refugee children she taught whilst working in West Africa. Her writing has appeared in independent literary journals and news sites.

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

Adam Farrer (The Californian) is an essayist, the editor of the creative non-fiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. His manuscript, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays about the Yorkshire coast, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards and will be published by Saraband in August. He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist, and currently works at the University of Salford.

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Jack Young (The Boy Next Door) writes experimental fiction and non-fiction, which has found its home with Entropy, Somesuch Stories, 3 A:M, Caught by the River and Burning House Press, among others. He also co-hosts the literary podcast Tender Buttons with Storysmith Books. His hybrid chapbook of interspecies intimacies Urth was published in 2022 by Big White Shed. He is currently curating a participatory programme at Bristol’s Spike Island Gallery around the concept of the Body-Forest, which is a way of decentering the human and thinking ecologically about desire, time, language, community and more.

Jack's work appears in Issue 10 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.

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