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.

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.

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.

Christopher Bigsby (The Golden Age), emeritus professor American Studies at UEA, is an academic, biographer and novelist. His latest books are Staging America: 21st-Century Dramatists and Ishmael, a sequel to Moby Dick.

Christopher's work appears in Issue 7 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.

Heather Martin (Lee Child: A Geek and a Nerd in Many Ways) was born in West Australia and moved to London aged sixteen with the idea of becoming a musician. Four years of guitar-playing and a Venezuelan folk group later, she wound up reading languages at Cambridge instead. This led to lectureships in twentiethcentury Spanish and Latin American literature first at Hull, then at King’s College London, and thence to a career in teaching, writing and translating. While researching The Reacher Guy, her biography of Lee Child, she was based for a year at the Department of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University New York.

Heather'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.

Cynthia Lewis (Who Will Believe Thee?) is Charles A. Dana Professor of English at Davidson College in North Carolina and has published widely on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, most recently The game’s afoot: A Sports Lover’s Introduction to Shakespeare. Her creative nonfiction has been published in The Hudson Review, New Letters, The Antioch Review, Southern Cultures, The Massachusetts Review and Charlotte Magazine. Four essays have been cited a ‘Notable Essay’ in the Best American Essays series; Return Engagement: The Haunting of Hamlet and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. won Shenandoah’s Thomas Carter Essay Prize for 2016; and Body Doubles won the Merringoff Prize for nonfiction.

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