Liz Taunt (RUNE) is our cover artist. She uses many different printmaking techniques including drypoint, lino, collagraph and monoprint, and she has recently been making collages from discarded prints. She is not interested in narrative or realism in her art, instead she is trying to bring something new into the world that combines the chaotic, the arbitrary and the awkward: things that surprise her and prompt the question ‘where did that come from?’ She gets lost (in a nice way) in a parallel world, and tries to invent ciphers and shorthand to describe her particular reality.

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

Jon Paul Roberts (In Search of Lost Voices) is an essayist and cultural critic from the north of England. Their work has appeared in The Spool, Another North, Brightest Young Things, Metro, The Huffington Post, and elsewhere. Their bi-monthly column, ‘How Film Changed Me’, uses film and television to understand millennial life and is published by Big Picture Film Club. In 2017, they won the Spread the Word’s inaugural Life Writing Prize for their essay ‘1955-2012’. Currently, they are working on a non-fiction book that grew out of ‘In Search for Lost Voices’ as well as finishing their PhD at Liverpool John Moores University.

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

Carla Montemayor (The Shapeshifters) is originally from the Philippines and came to the UK as a student nearly 20 years ago. She has worked in politics and communication in three countries for most of her career, most recently in migrants’ and women’s rights. She was shortlisted for Spread the Word’s Life Writing Prize in 2020 and is a recipient of the London Writers Awards 2021. She is working on a memoir on grief, family history and her life as a migrant in London over the turbulent decade.

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

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.

Jordan Harrison-Twist’s (My Stepfather, Bolton’s Entire First Eleven at the ‘95 Play- Off Final Against Reading) most recent writings have appeared in Ossian, The Cormorant Broadsheet, Lit Quarterly, CHEAP POP, No Contact, Funicular, Reflex Fiction, Lunate, and others. He won the Retreat West micro fiction competition with his story ‘Longitudinal’, which was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His forthcoming chapbook A Few Alterations will be published by Nightjar.

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

Doireann Ní Ghríofa (In Conversation with…) is a poet and essayist. Her prose début A Ghost in the Throat was awarded the James Tait Black Prize for Biography 2021 and described as ‘powerful’ (New York Times), and ‘captivatingly original’ (The Guardian). She is also author of six critically acclaimed books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Awards for her writing include a Lannan Literary Fellowship (USA), the Ostana Prize (Italy), a Seamus Heaney Fellowship (Queen’s University), and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.

Doireann'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.

Jacqueline Ellis (Zero Hour for the Rabbit) is a writer and professor of women’s and gender studies. Her writing has appeared in Feminist Review, WSQ, and Mutha Magazine. Originally from Peterborough, England, she now lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

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

Chris Cusack (Birds) is a writer and academic from the Netherlands. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Manchester Review, Banshee, Ink Sweat & Tears, 3:AM, The Honest Ulsterman, and elsewhere. As a critic, he has written for the TLS, The Irish Times, Poetry London and Poetry Review.

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

Chris Beckett (Abebe, the Cook’s Son) is a Ted Hughes Award-shortlisted poet and translator who grew up in Addis Ababa in the last years of Haile Selassie’s reign. He has published two collections, Ethiopia Boy and Tenderfoot, plus the first ever anthology of Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English, edited/translated with Alemu Tebeje, Songs We Learn from Trees. This autumn he is leading a workshop on Childhood and Praise Poetry for the Poetry School.

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

Aaron Landsman's (Wrestling the Keys) upcoming and recent publication credits include poetry in The Wax Paper, Ghost City Review and Evergreen Review, and prose in River Teeth, Theater Magazine, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Hobart. His new book about democracy and performance called The City We Make Together, co-authored with Mallory Catlett, comes out with the University of Iowa Press in 2022. His live performance works have been seen on stages, in homes, on buses and in offices, in New York City where he lives, and in other US and foreign cities. He teaches part-time at Princeton.

Aaron'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.