Richard Skelton (Apparitions, Dust) is an artist from northern England. His work – writing, music, artworks, films – is rooted in the particularities of specific landscapes, from the moors of Lancashire to the fells of Cumbria, the karst hills of western Ireland to the fjords of eastern Iceland. He is codirector, with the Canadian poet Autumn Richardson, of Corbel Stone Press, one of the foremost British small presses dedicated to publishing work that is focused on landscape and the natural world. For the past half-decade he has lived on the rural border of Scotland and England.

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

Tom Bailey (Throwing the Dice Again) grew up in London and studied Creative Writing at Boston University. He was awarded a Robert Pinsky Global Fellowship in 2020, and is currently trying to put together his first pamphlet. His poems have been published in bath magg, The Kindling, Hawk & Whippoorwill, The Cormorant, and the Munster Literature Centre’s Poems from Pandemia Anthology.

Tom's work appears in Issue 10 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.

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.

Chris Beckett (Abebe, the Cook’s Son) is a Ted Hughes Award-shortlisted poet and translator who grew up in Addis Ababa in the last years of Haile Selassie’s reign. He has published two collections, Ethiopia Boy and Tenderfoot, plus the first ever anthology of Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English, edited/translated with Alemu Tebeje, Songs We Learn from Trees. This autumn he is leading a workshop on Childhood and Praise Poetry for the Poetry School.

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

Katrina Naomi’s (The Attack) third poetry collection, Wild Persistence (Seren), received an Authors’ Foundation award from the Society of Authors. Her poetry has appeared on Poems on the Underground and Radio 4’s Front Row. Katrina has published four pamphlets of poetry, including the Japan-themed Typhoon Etiquette (Verve Poetry Press); she was the first poetin- residence at the Brontë Parsonage Museum and was highly commended in the 2017 Forward Prize for Poetry. Katrina has a PhD in creative writing from Goldsmiths and tutors for Arvon, Ty Newydd and the Poetry School. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk

Katrina's work appears in Issue 7 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.