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.

Laura Steiner (Friends For A Day) is a writer, performer and improviser from Colombia. She started her writing career in New York where she graduated from NYU with a journalism degree and then moved to London in 2014 to pursue her interest in theatre. Theatre became physical performance which became comedy which led to improv. Whether it’s writing words or on stage, narrative and story are at the forefront of her work. She currently lives back home in Bogotá where she spends most of her days perfecting her Spanglish.

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