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.

Susmita Bhattacharya (In the Spotlight) is an Indianborn writer. Her debut novel, The Normal State of Mind (Parthian, 2015) was longlisted at the Mumbai Film Festival, 2018. Her short story collection, Table Manners (Dahlia Publishing, 2018), won the Saboteur Award for Best Short Story Collection, was a finalist for the Hall & Woodhouse DLF Prize and has been featured on BBC Radio 4. Susmita teaches creative writing at Winchester University and facilitates the ArtfulScribe Mayflower Young Writers programme in Southampton. She was also Writer-in- Residence at London’s Word Factory in 2021. Find her on Twitter @Susmitatweets

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

Steve Cushman (Collectors) earned an MFA from UNC-Greensboro and has published three novels. His poetry collection, How Birds Fly, won the 2018 Lena Shull Book Award.

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

Sureshkumar P. Sekar (Rahmania) is a writer from Salem, India. He studied mechanical engineering and worked as a software engineer for thirteen years before gaining his MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia in 2018. He is currently working on a hybrid musicological memoir, Leitmotif, and a monograph on Indian film scores, The Music of Lagaan. He will shortly begin doctoral study on film music at the Royal College of Music, London.

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