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.
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.
Laura Carroll (The Riddle of the Sphinx) is a writer/artist/international development wonk based in the Washington, DC area. She has lived/worked/ traveled in 20+ countries and counting. Nearly everything she writes relates to fairy tales in some manner, and she enjoys subtly queering everything she touches. Her previous (non-fiction) work has appeared in Global Impressions and Renaissance Magazine, as well as various travel writing websites. Most of her fiction and poetry still lives in a drawer.
Laura's work appears in Issue 4 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
Stephen Massil (Mr Speaker Bercow, Man of the People) held a senior position at the University of London Library, which he combined with postings at the Huguenot Library, Sir John Soane’s Museum, the National Trust and the Garrick Club. He is a Vice-President of the Jewish Historical Society of England, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Library Association; and a contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In 2016 he gained an MA in Biography and Creative Non- Fiction from UEA, where his principal subject was Lost Cousins, chronicling a series of historical figures and their connections, with an autobiographical undertow.
Stephen's work appears in Issue 2 of Hinterland. Click here to buy a copy.
