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.

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.

Ashley Hickson-Lovence (Nearly City) is a writer and educator from Hackney, currently based in Norwich. While working as a secondary school English teacher, he completed his MA in Creative Writing and Publishing and is currently completing his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia. His debut novel The 392 was released with OWN IT! in April 2019. His second novel Your Show, a novelisation of the early life and career of former Premier League football referee Uriah Rennie, is to be released with Faber in Spring 2022.

Ashley's work appears in Issue 6 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.