René Georg Vasicek (Notes from a Czechoslovakian Machine Shop) is the author of The Defectors (forthcoming 2020, J.New Books). He earned an MFA at Sarah Lawrence College and was awarded an NEA fellowship. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Gargoyle, Barrelhouse, Mid-American Review, Post Road, Wigleaf and elsewhere. He lives in New York City.
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Helen Szirtes (In Conversation with) spent several years as an editor at Bloomsbury Publishing in London before going freelance in 2008. She has worked on books by many notable authors, including Sarah Crossan, Caoilin Hughes, Philip Reeve, Alexander McCall Smith and JK Rowling. With her partner, designer and illustrator Richard Horne, she coauthored the bestselling 101 Things To Do Before You’re Old and Boring. Helen continues to edit and write for children from her home in Norwich.
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George Szirtes (At the Ambassadors, In Conversation with) was born in Hungary in 1948. His first book, The Slant Door (1979) won the Faber Prize. He has published many since then, Reel (2004) winning the T.S. Eliot Prize, for which he has been twice shortlisted since. His memoir, The Photographer at Sixteen, was published in February 2019.
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Kimmo Rosenthal (Helvetia) has been teaching mathematics for over three decades. In the last halfdozen years he has turned his attention from mathematical research to writing. His work has appeared in Prime Number (nominated for a Pushcart Prize), EDGE, decomP, KYSO Flash, The Fib Review, and The Ekphrastic Review.
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Dani Redd (Remembering Ice) has a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA. She writes both fiction and non-fiction, with work appearing in National Geographic Traveller India, Words and Women, Herizons, The Island Review and many more. Much of her writing is devoted to exploring the topographies and cultures of remote islands. She is currently working on a novel entitled The Arctic Curry Club, set between Spitsbergen and Bangalore, India, a city where she lived for two years.
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Rebecca Pymar (The British Library) is an artist living and working in Norwich. Her work focuses on the built environment, illustrating places and spaces which have history and meaning. Rebecca's style is stripped back, stylised and precise, paying close attention to both colour and perspective; creating balanced yet striking pieces. She is inspired by what she sees around her and adopts a minimal approach to colour and detail, focusing on form and composition to create instantly recognisable and memorable pieces.
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Andrew Menard (Sons of Neptune) is the author of two books: a monograph on the nineteenth-century American explorer John Frémont and a literary non-fiction account of Henry David Thoreau. Articles and essays have appeared in everything from Artforum, Studio International and Oxford Art Journal to The New England Quarterly, Georgia Review and Antioch Review.
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Christopher Linforth (Undersigned) has published work in Notre Dame Review, Fiction International, The Millions, South Dakota Review and other literary magazines.
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Anna Lachkaya (Sew Me a Song) is a Faculty-Led Programs Coordinator at Agnes Scott College, where she organizes global learning trips. Her passion for writing and learning remains strong both personally and professionally. Anna grew up in Riga, Latvia and currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and two sons.
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Chris Jennings (Starting Salary) is an author and technologist in the San Francisco Bay Area who has co-authored a number of academic publications and is contributing editor to several e-learning magazines. His non-fiction has appeared in daCunha. Chris has a BA in Creative Writing and Masters degrees in both American Studies and Interactive Telecommunications. In addition to writing, Chris works at Google where he designs free online learning programs and delivery platforms used by over a million people worldwide.
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Mark Anthony Jarman’s (The Crooked Grocer) short stories and non-fiction have been published in Europe and North America and he is a fiction editor for The Fiddlehead literary journal in Canada. His most recent book is Knife Party at the Hotel Europa.
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Emily Holt’s (Restless Creature) first poetry collection, Though the Walls Are Lit, is forthcoming in 2020 from Lost Horse Press. She received an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and a Master of Letters in Literature from Trinity College University of Dublin. She lives in Seattle, Washington.
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Megan Holland (The Snake Pass) writes across multiple genres and platforms. A short story, The Coalman, raised funds for the homeless charity Barnabus; while her novel The Last Picture House was selected for the Penguin Random House initiative Writenow. Resistance, a play, was performed at Oldham Coliseum Theatre as part of the First Break festival and another short story, Date Night, won the Creative Future Literary Awards 2017. Megan is also being mentored by the LGBTQ initiative Raising Our Voices.
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Michael Fischer (Lights, Camera) is a Moth StorySlam winner, a Luminarts Cultural Foundation Fellow, and a mentor for incarcerated authors through the Pen City Writers program. His work appears in Salon, The Sun, Orion, Guernica, The Rumpus and elsewhere; and his audio essays have been broadcast on CBC Radio’s ‘Love Me’ and The New York Times's ‘Modern Love: The Podcast.’
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Amy Davies (Thank You, Penarth) is a journalist and photographer. She is the Features Editor for Amateur Photographer, Britain’s oldest weekly photography magazine, as well as contributing freelance articles to a wide range of different titles. Although English, she lives in Cardiff, South Wales, with her long-suffering sausage dog, Lola.
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Margaret O’Brien (Suppose I Were to Begin) co-founded The Story House Ireland and is an affiliate of Amherst Writers & Artists. She curates the annual Brewery Lane Writers’ weekend and runs the monthly open mic, Poetry Plus, alongside the workshop series Writing Changes Lives, in Brewery Lane Theatre, Carrick-on-Suir. Previously Margaret lectured in English and Creative Writing at Waterford Institute of Technology. Her work has been published by Southword, The South Circular, RTE/O’Brien Press, Flash Frontier, The Pickled Body and The Irish Times.
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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.
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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.
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