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.

Charlie J. Stephens (When They Took All The Trees) is a non-binary, mixed race fiction writer living on unceded Chochenyo Ohlone land in Northern California. Charlie has lived all over the US as a bike messenger, wilderness guide, book seller and seasonal shark diver (for educational purposes only). Charlie’s work has appeared in Electric Literature, Peculiar, The Racket, Fresh.Ink and Original Plumbing among others. Charlie has recently finished a collection of short stories, and is hard at work on their first novel. More at charliejstephenswriting.com and on Instagram @charliejstephenswriting.

Charlie'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.

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.

Amy Cotler (Sally’s Cake) is a chef and writer. Her short pieces have appeared in various publications, including right here in Hinterland, as well as Guesthouse, The Rambling Epicure and Bright Flash. Before turning to creative writing, Cotler worked as a food writer, cooking teacher and cookbook author. She was a leader of the farm-totable movement in the US, and food forum host for The New York Times. Currently, she lives in Mexico with her husband, an artist, and their dog, Remy. Visit her at amycotler.com

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

Giles Scott is the author of the memoir If In An Echo (forthcoming in 2022 from Upset Press), and is currently at work on a series of essays about teaching – Flogging a Dead Horse: Classic High School Books and the Life Left in Them. Scott’s writing has appeared in Catapult, The Millions, Ninth Letter, and The Washington Post. Born in the north of England, he has called the U.S. home for the last two decades, and currently teaches high-school English in the San Francisco Bay area. Find Giles on Instagram @giles__scott or at his website gilesscott.com

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

Bella Braxton (Ducks for Ducks) is a junior philosophy major at Agnes Scott College.

Bella'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.

Nathan Munday (Bear Stalking in the Bucegi) is a Welsh writer from Carmarthenshire. In 2016 he won the M. Wynn Thomas New Scholars Prize and came second in the New Welsh Writing Awards with his creative non-fiction book Seven Days: A Pyrenean Adventure, published by Parthian in 2017. He has also been placed twice for poetry in the Terry Hetherington Awards (2019, 2020). When he’s not writing and reading, he enjoys mountains; and works for Christian Aid.

Nathan'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.

Tom Hutchings (Chilled Breeze)

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

Alice Jolly’s (Big Hugs and Kisses) most recent novel Mary Ann Sate, Imbecile (Unbound) was runner up for the Rathbones Folio Prize and was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. Alice has also won the Pen Ackerley Prize for memoir and the V.S. Pritchett Memorial Prize for a short story. Her stories have appeared in Prospect, Ploughshares, The Manchester Review, Litro and Fairlight. She teaches creative writing at Oxford University.

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

Meg Freer (Tbilisi Sounds in Transit) grew up in Montana and has worked in book publishing. She now teaches piano, takes photos and enjoys the outdoors yearround in Ontario. Her photos, poems and prose have been published in journals such as Ruminate, Vallum Contemporary Poetry, Young Ravens Literary Review, Eastern Iowa Review, and Rat’s Ass Review. In 2017 she attended the Summer Literary Seminars in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia. Her poetry has won awards and have been shortlisted for several contests in both the U.S. and Canada.

Meg'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.

Nick Bradley (Overexposed) is a graduate of both the MA and the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing programs at UEA. His debut novel The Cat and The City was published by Atlantic Books in the UK in June 2020, North America in September, and is currently being translated into multiple languages. It was chosen for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club with Jo Whiley, and has received praise in The Times and The Guardian amongst others. For a decade, Nick lived and worked in Japan.

Nick'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.

Tom Hutchings (Summer Skies) is our in-house graphic designer and photographer, based in the south of London. He's spent a lot of time this summer thinking about how people play games and how the interfaces of games (both physical and digital) can help or hinder their enjoyment. Have a look at his varied output at www.thorngraphicdesign.com.

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

Charlie J. Stephens (Kaleb Blackgoat) is a queer fiction writer living in Northern California. Charlie has lived all over the U.S. as a bike messenger, wilderness guide, bookseller, and seasonal shark diver (for educational purposes). Charlie’s work has appeared in Original Plumbing (Feminist Press), The Flexible Persona, The Forge Literary Magazine, Gravel Literary Magazine, Rappahannock Review, Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk, and Nothing Short of: Selected Tales from 100 Word Story. Charlie is currently working on a collection of short stories, as well as their first novel. charliejstephenswriting.com

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