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.

Anna Jones (In Conversation with...) is an award-winning cook, writer, the voice of modern vegetarian cooking and the author of the bestselling A Modern Way to Eat, A Modern Way to Cook, The Modern Cook’s Year, and most recently, One. She lives, writes and cooks in Hackney, East London.

Anna's work appears in Issue 8 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.

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.

Tessa McWatt (In Conversation With…) is the author of six novels and two books for young people. Her fiction has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award, the City of Toronto Book Awards, and the OCM Bocas Prize. She is one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018 for her first non-fiction book, Shame On Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging. She coedited, with Dionne Brand and Rabindranath Maharaj, Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada. She is also a librettist, Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, and is on the Board of Trustees at Wasafiri.

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

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.

Helen's work appears in Issue 3 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

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.

George's work appears in Issue 3 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Bart van Es (In Conversation With) was born in the Netherlands and grew up in Norway, Dubai, Indonesia and the U.K. He studied English Literature at Cambridge and is now Professor of English at Oxford. His academic books include Shakespeare in Company and Shakespeare’s Comedies. In 2014 van Es began to look into his family’s wartime history, knowing that a Jewish girl, Lien, had lived in hiding with his grandparents during the occupation. He met Lien, now aged 82, and began the first of a series of interviews that formed the basis for The Cut Out Girl; which won the Costa Book of the Year 2018 and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize. Translations are out or forthcoming in fourteen languages.

Bart's work appears in Issue 2 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Damian Le Bas (In Conversation With) is a writer and occasional filmmaker from West Sussex. His first book, The Stopping Places: a Journey through Gypsy Britain, is an exploration of Gypsy and Traveller history told through a year spent travelling around the country's old nomadic halting sites. It won a Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Award for Non-fiction, was a BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week', and was shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year.

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