Author
Katie Munnik
KATIE MUNNIK is a Canadian writer living in Cardiff. She is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers in Toronto, Canada, and her first novel, The Heart Beats in Secret was a USA Today bestseller. The Aerialists is her second novel.
Judith Allnatt
Judith Allnatt is an acclaimed short story writer and novelist. Her novels include The Moon Field and The Silk Factory. She lives with her family in Northamptonshire.
Michael Punke
Michael Punke is the author of The Revenant which was made into an Oscar winning movie directed by Alejandro Gonzalez starring Leonardo DiCaprio. He lives with his family in Montana. Punke is the history correspondent for Montana Quarterly magazine. Punke is also the author of a work of nonfiction, Fire and Brimstone: The North Butte Mining Disaster of 1917, a finalist for the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award.
Katy Simpson Smith
Katy Simpson Smith was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. She attended Mount Holyoke College and received a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has been working as an adjunct professor at Tulane University and has published a study of early American motherhood, We Have
Raised All of You: Motherhood in the South, 1750–1835. She lives in New Orleans.
Rob Ewing
Rob Ewing is a GP and lives on a small island off the Scottish coast. His poetry and short fiction have been published by New Writing UK, New Writing Scotland, and performed on BBC Radio. This is his debut novel.
Katy Mahood
Katy Mahood was born in 1978 and studied at Edinburgh and Oxford Universities. After a brief career in publishing, she has since worked in marketing, most recently for the cancer charity Maggie’s. She has contributed to a number of publications on architecture and health and writes a blog which features occasional poetry and short fiction. She lives in Bristol with her husband and two children. Entanglement is her first novel.
Mary Chamberlain
Mary Chamberlain has lived and worked in England and the Caribbean, and is Emeritus Professor of History at Oxford Brookes University. Her book, Fenwomen, was the first to be published by Virago Press in 1975. Since then she has written many books on women’s history, oral history and Caribbean history. She is a graduate of the acclaimed Creative Writing MA at Royal Holloway, University of London and now lives in London with her husband.