CALEB AZUMAH NELSON is a 26-year-old
British-Ghanaian writer and photographer
living in south-east London. His writing has been
published in Litro. He was recently shortlisted
for the Palm Photo Prize and the BBC National
Short Story Prize 2020, and won the People’s
Choice prize. His debut novel, Open Water,
is out next year.
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet,
writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an
Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies
internationally in the US, Brazil and at the
V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works
and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B
(Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation
African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at
Royal Holloway, University of London, where she
is the recipient of a Technē studentship for doctoral
research in Creative Writing.
EMILY BERRY is the author of two poetry collections,
Dear Boy (2013) and Stranger, Baby (2017),
both from Faber. She edits The Poetry Review. Many
Nights, a photobook featuring Jacqui Kenny’s
pictures and the complete version of ‘The Secret
Country of her Mind’, will be published in 2021.
BRANDON TAYLOR is the author of the novel
Real Life, which was a New York Times Editors’
Choice and shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize.
His work has appeared in Guernica, American Short
Fiction, Gulf Coast, The New York Times, The New
Yorker online, The Literary Review and elsewhere.
He holds graduate degrees from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and the Iowa Writers’
Workshop, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow.
ELIZABETH O’CONNOR lives and works
in Birmingham. She recently received her PhD
in modernist poetry, and is interested in writing
about natural history, animals and plants. She
is the winner of The White Review Short Story
Prize 2020.
ILYA LEUTIN was born in Siberia in 1986. He
is a screenwriter and a columnist for a number
of Russian publications, including Snob and The
Russian Muslim. The pieces in this issue come from
his first book, Ravshan’s Real Stories, published in
2012 under the name Ravshan Saleddin. It was
longlisted for the National Bestseller award and
shortlisted for the Russian Debut prize. He is also
the author of the novel Silence Full Blast (2015)
and the collections The Caramel Knight (2016) and
Oriental Miniatures (2018).
Scholastique Mukasonga is the author of The Barefoot Woman, Our Lady of the Nile, Cockroaches and Igifu.
INGRID POLLARD is a British artist and
photographer. In 2018 she was the Stuart Hall
Associate Fellow at the University of Sussex.
ADAM PENDLETON (b. 1984, Richmond,
Virginia) is recognised for his conceptual practice,
which encompasses painting, sculpture, writing,
film, and performance. He has been the subject
of solo exhibitions across the United States and
abroad, at institutions including the Indianapolis
Museum of Contemporary Art (2008);
Kunstverein, Amsterdam (2009); The Kitchen,
New York (2010); the Contemporary Arts Center,
New Orleans, the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Denver and the Museum of Contemporary Art
Cleveland, Ohio (2016); Kunst-Werke Institute
for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2017); Baltimore
Museum of Art (2017).
HERVÉ GUIBERT (1955 – 91) was a French
writer and photographer. He was the author of
some thirty books and played a significant role
in changing public attitudes in France toward
AIDS. Hervé Guibert died at the age of 36
in Paris following a failed suicide attempt.
JACK UNDERWOOD’s double pamphlet Solo
for Mascha Voice/Tenuous Rooms was published
by Test Centre in 2018. Happiness was published
by Faber & Faber in 2015. He is senior lecturer
in creative writing at Goldsmiths, University
of London.
JENNIFER LEE TSAI is a poet, editor and
critic. She was born in Bebington and grew up in
Liverpool. A fellow of The Complete Works and
a Ledbury Poetry Critic, her work features in the
Bloodaxe anthology Ten: Poets of the New Generation
(2017). She is a Contributing Editor at Ambit. Her
debut poetry pamphlet is Kismet (ignitionpress,
2019). Currently, she is an AHRC PhD Researcher
in Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool.
She is the winner of a Northern Writers Award for
Poetry 2020.
LAURA ELLIOTT is a poet and library worker
in London. She is the author of this is hunting
(Distance No Object, 2019), rib-boning (Moot
Press, 2019), and lemon, egg, bread (Test Centre,
2017). She co-edits the experimental poetry
magazine para·text with Angus Sinclair.