Karen Kao (Hats) is the winner of the 2022 Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest and a nominee for the Pushcart Prize, VERA, and Best of the Net. Her debut novel, The Dancing Girl and the Turtle, is the first of a quartet of interlocking novels set in Shanghai. Karen’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in Pleiades, Kenyon Review, Brevity Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review and others. For more information on Karen and her work, please visit www.inkstonepress.com

Karen's work appears in Issue 13 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Amy Cotler (Joy (Or, It’s Time)) worked as a culinary professional before turning to creative writing. Her short pieces have appeared in various literary magazines, including Hinterland. She was a leader in the farmto- table movement, and lectured widely on the subject. Cotler also taught at Culinary Institute of America and The Institute for Culinary Education, hosted food forums for The New York Times, authored five cookbooks, and created more than 1000 recipes for Joy of Cooking and other publications. Cotler lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her husband, an artist, and their dog, Remy.

Amy's work appears in Issue 13 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Kim Rooney (61) has written poetry, nonfiction and short fiction. She graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2004 with an MA in Life Writing. You can find her at www.unrevisedfragments.com

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

Ali Seegar (And Who Would I Then Have Been?) writes fiction, non-fiction and poetry for all age groups. Publications include her children’s book series, ‘Tommy Turner’s Travels’. In 2022 she won the London Independent Story Prize with her short story Nothing Happens Until Something Moves. Ali started her professional life as a dancer until a knee injury forced her to stop. She now lives in Luxembourg, where she regularly visits schools and libraries to give creative writing workshops, and has recently graduated from the University of Oxford’s Creative Writing diploma with distinction. She is currently working on the first book of a YA fantasy series.

Ali's work appears in Issue 12 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Julie Zuckerman‘s (Abbaye de Valloies) debut novel-instories, The Book of Jeremiah, was published in May 2019. Her writing has appeared in CRAFT, Jewish Women’s Archives, Crab Orchard Review, SFWP Quarterly, Atlas & Alice, and Sixfold. A native of Connecticut, she now lives in Israel with her husband and four children. She is the founder of the Literary Modiin author series, connecting readers and writers of Jewish books. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading, running, biking, and trying to grow things in her garden.

Julie's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Sylvia Ilahuka (M.B.L.A) is a Tanzanian writer now living in Uganda. Her work appears in publications such as Lolwe, Doek! the Aké Review, and Bandcamp Daily; she was also shortlisted for the inaugural Isele Nonfiction Prize. A graduate of Wellesley College in Massachusetts, Sylvia is the recipient of a Goethe-Institut artistic grant under which she produced photographic essays for the House of African Feminisms project.

Sylvia's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Adam Farrer (The Californian) is an essayist, the editor of the creative non-fiction journal The Real Story and the Writer in Residence for Peel Park, Salford. His manuscript, Cold Fish Soup, a memoir in essays about the Yorkshire coast, won the NorthBound Book Award at the 2021 Northern Writers’ Awards and will be published by Saraband in August. He has been a photo lab technician, a kitchen porter, the voice of an automated phone system, an illustrator, a ceramicist, a musician, a music journalist, and currently works at the University of Salford.

Adam's work appears in Issue 11 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Laura Cooper (Walks Through Time) has worked as a writer, photographer and educator in Japan, Spain and the UK. She will graduate from the UEA’s MA in Creative Writing this year. Her music and travel photography has appeared on album covers and in various publications including Time Out Tokyo and The Guardian, and her portrait work has won numerous awards. Her debut novel-in-progress explores solastalgia and resilience in a speculative near-future England.

Laura's work appears in Issue 11 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.

Sarah Young (Writing My Mother) lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing (Prose) at the University of East Anglia in 2014, where she was the UEA Booker scholarship recipient. Her non-fiction work has been published in Strong Words 2. She has been shortlisted for the Sozopol Fiction Seminar Fellowship in Bulgaria and the Newsroom Surrey Hotel Writers Residency and her fiction was long-listed for the Bath Short Story award and the BBC National Short Story award in the UK. She formerly worked as a journalist in Dubai, Indonesia, and New Zealand.

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

Sharon Tolaini-Sage (My Mother’s House) Sharon has been Lorna Sage’s Literary Executor since 2000. She is an Associate Professor at Norwich University of the Arts, where she specialises in working with students on the cultural and contextual aspects of digital games. In addition to her role as an educator, Sharon is a translator and writer for Pulp magazine. Since 2017 she has been an Ambassador and an Advisory Board member of Women in Games. In 2020 she was a highly commended finalist in the Times Higher Education Awards’ Most Innovative Teacher of the Year.

Sharon's work appears in Issue 7 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.

Victor Sage (Writing, Reading and Witnessing) is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature in the School of Literature Drama and Creative Writing at UEA. He is the author of one collection of short stories, Dividing Lines (Chatto), and two novels, A Mirror For Larks (Secker) and Black Shawl (Secker). He has written extensively on the Gothic tradition and is the editor of Charles Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and Sheridan Le Fanu's Uncle Silas for Penguin Classics. Recent work has been on the European Gothic.

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

Freya Dean (Reflections on my Grandfather) is co-editor of this magazine.

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

Rob Atkinson (Returning) is a zoologist by training, with a background in academia and the animal welfare charity sector. He was Head of Wildlife at the RSPCA and Chief Executive Officer of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, and now works as a consultant, focusing on creating an elephant sanctuary for Europe's captive elephants. In 2015 he gained an MA with distinction in Creative Non-fiction at UEA and won the Lorna Sage prize. Rob is a Hawthornden Fellow and this is his second piece published in Hinterland.

Rob's work appears in Issue 7 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.

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.

Jennifer Y. Montgomery (The Red Scarf ) is a writer, artist, storyteller, attorney, and pie baker who lives in Connecticut with her daughter. She grew up in rural North Dakota but has no discernible accent. She has also lived in California, Minnesota, Scotland, Israel, and Connecticut. All of these places have influenced her life and writing. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Quarterly, Enclave, Jitter, Haiku Journal, Failed Haiku, and elsewhere. She has told many stories on stage and has been featured on the Mouth storytelling podcast. She believes that truth is stranger than fiction and authenticity is the highest art form.

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

Lily Dunn (Waiting For God) is an author, mentor and lecturer. Her first novel was published by Portobello Books and her creative nonfiction has been published by Granta and Aeon, among others. She has edited A Wild and Precious Life: Addiction, physical and mental illness and its aftermath, a collection of stories and poetry from writers in recovery, to be published by Unbound in April 2021, and is currently writing a memoir about the legacy of her father’s various addictions. She teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University, co-runs London Lit Lab and is studying for a doctorate at Birkbeck, University of London.

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

Cecily Blench (The Places We Return To) is a freelance writer and editor. Originally from Herefordshire, she studied English Literature at the University of York and worked for several years at an independent publisher in London. She has written for Slightly Foxed, Reader's Digest and The London Magazine, among others. She has a particular interest in travel writing, history, and intrepid women. Her first novel won the 2019 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize for unpublished manuscripts and is contracted for publication in 2021.

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