Adrian Tissier (Travellers over the Fields) is a writer and performer, currently studying for an MA in Creative Non- Fiction at UEA. He has delivered creative writing workshops and performed award-winning storytelling and poetry events at the Manchester Literature Festival and Buxton Festival Fringe. Previously he worked for the National Trust, specialising in delivering workshops and training for environmental interpretation and inspiring immersive experience, and has presented at conferences nationally and internationally. He is also a trained teacher of English and drama, and has written books on poetry and English language for Longman Literature. Instagram: @tissieradrian

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

Jean Sprackland’s (Other Clocks) latest book is These Silent Mansions: a life in graveyards, which was shortlisted for the PEN Ackerley Award in 2021. Strands won the Portico Prize for Non-Fiction in 2012. She is the author of five collections of poetry, including the Costa Award-winning Tilt. Jean is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.

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

Pune Dracker (Gator Love) is a writer, editor and social justice warrior in New York City. She has an MFA in Nonfiction/Poetry from The New School, where she conducted psychogeographic experiments and wrote and performed Fluxus-inspired scores, and an MA in Design Research, Writing & Criticism from the School of Visual Arts.

Pune's work appears in Issue 9 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Jacqueline Ellis (Zero Hour for the Rabbit) is a writer and professor of women’s and gender studies. Her writing has appeared in Feminist Review, WSQ, and Mutha Magazine. Originally from Peterborough, England, she now lives in Montclair, New Jersey.

Jacqueline's work appears in Issue 9 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Chris Cusack (Birds) is a writer and academic from the Netherlands. His work has appeared in Poetry Ireland Review, The Manchester Review, Banshee, Ink Sweat & Tears, 3:AM, The Honest Ulsterman, and elsewhere. As a critic, he has written for the TLS, The Irish Times, Poetry London and Poetry Review.

Chris's work appears in Issue 9 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

Margaret Hedderman (The Domain of Courageous Men) writes about the outdoors: environmental science, the use and abuse of wild places, and where we go from here. She is also the founder of the annual Women Outside Adventure Forum. Her experience as a backpacker, climber, and backcountry snowboarder informs and inspires her work. She is currently developing a collection of essays about self-propelled carbon neutral travel and climate change. Margaret holds an MA from the University of East Anglia and lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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

Rob Atkinson (The Kingfisher) 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, focussing on creating an elephant sanctuary for Europe's captive elephants. In 2015 he gained an MA in Creative Non-fiction at UEA, achieving a Distinction and the Lorna Sage Prize for ‘Work of outstanding merit’.

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

John Van Kirk’s (Pileated in Humboldt Country) short stories have earned him the O. Henry Award (1993) and The Iowa Review Fiction Prize (2011). His work has been published in numerous journals, as well as several anthologies. His novel, Song for Chance, was published in 2013 by Red Hen Press.

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

Mark Cocker (Dark Sunlight, or My Favourite Predator) is a naturalist and author of creative non-fiction, who has written for The Guardian newspaper for more than 30 years. His 12 books include works of biography, history, literary criticism and memoir. They include Our Place (2018) about the fate of British nature in the twentieth century, which was shortlisted for the Thwaites- Wainwright and the Richard Jefferies Prizes. Between them his last four books have been shortlisted for 9 awards. Crow Country won the New Angle Prize in 2009 and A Claxton Diary won the East Anglian Book Award in 2019.

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

Martin Eberlen (There Are No Polar Bears Where I Live) is a London-based documentary photographer, visual artist and writer. Martin graduated in 2018 with a distinction from the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College of Communication and the same year was selected, with just thirty other artists from around the globe, to be part of Parallel Photo Platform. As part of a year-long cycle, these artists create a new body of work to be exhibited in various European cities.

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