Sahanika Ratnayake (Three People Lost Their Lives) is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge. She was born in Sri Lanka and grew up in New Zealand and Australia, and has lived in the UK for the past two years. Her work has appeared in Aeon, 3AM Magazine and VICE, as well as Australasian literary journals such as Overland and Poetry New Zealand.

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

Rod Panos (Chest Wound) lives in California. A previous life writing reports in pursuit of technical development and corporate goals failed to satisfy his creative urges. The joys of writing now encourage him to write more personal stories hoping to reach a broader audience and of one day pressing the ‘submit’ button with a bit of confidence.

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

Ian Thomson (Blue Murder) is the author of an acclaimed biography of Primo Levi, a study of Dante and two prize-winning 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 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Justin Kern (Second Time Around) is a former daily news reporter who currently lives in Milwaukee. His words have appeared in Utne Reader, Great Lakes Review, Forth, Wanderlust Journal, Longshot Island, Milwaukee Record and a trio of anthologies from Belt Publishing. Justin is also a lifelong amateur musician who throws horseshoes as a phony spiritual exercise.

Justin's work appears in Issue 1 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.