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ANGELINA AYERS began the MA Writing in October 2008. She is a bookseller at Blackwell Bookshop and a qualified nurse. She recently completed a BA in Film and Literature, and has a BMedSci from University of Sheffield. Angelina has poems and short stories in e-Sheaf, Matter, Best of MA Writing and Leaf Books.

HELEN CADBURY writes fiction when she can sit still for long enough and poetry when she can’t. She also runs her own business, theatrestudy.com, and teaches in a women’s prison. Her poetry has appeared in two Cinnamon Press anthologies and her short story ‘Nature’s Way’ was broadcast on BBC Radio Four in 2008.

SUSAN CLEGG is a first year MA student at Hallam. She has previously been published in The Stinging Fly and won the Deeside Writers competition in 2007. She works as a communications coordinator for an accountancy association and lives in Sheffield with her partner and two children.

JULIA COPUS’s publications include The Shuttered Eye (1995) which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, and In Defence of Adultery (2003) – both Poetry Book Society Recommendations. She has won a number of awards for her poetry, including an Eric Gregory Award, an Arts Council of England Writer’s Award, and a Hawthornden Fellowship. In 2002, she won first prize in the National Poetry Competition. Her radio work includes an afternoon play, Eenie Meenie Macka Racka (2003), which was winner of the BBC’s Alfred Bradley Award. She is currently an Advisory Fellow for the Royal Literary Fund and an Honorary Fellow at the University of Exeter.

MAGGIE GEE’s most recent novels were My Cleaner and My Driver (Telegram). She was the first female Chair of the Royal Society of Literature and is a Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam.

KATE HAINSWORTH graduated in Classics, worked in theatre and the oil industry and marketing and arts administration and regional government and all sorts of consultancies. She has lived in the Ukraine, France, Belgium, Grimsby – and now Hull. She has two kids and two step-kids and is inordinately grateful Sheffield insisted she study script.

MARIAN ISEARD came to Sheffield in 1972. She has always written; first poetry and short stories, then children’s and teenage fiction. Some stories and a short play have been published in an educational series for young adults. Marian was in a Sheffield theatre group for many years, involved in performing and directing. She is now working on a novel for the MA at Hallam.

ALISON MACLEOD has published two novels, The Changeling (Macmillan) and The Wave Theory of Angels (Penguin). Her story collection, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction (Penguin), was named as one of the top 10 ‘Books to Talk About in 2009’. She is Professor of Contemporary Fiction at the University of Chichester. (www.alison-macleod.com)

ADAM MAREK’s short story collection, Instruction Manual for Swallowing (Comma Press), was described in The Guardian as a ‘transgressive thrill to read’ and The Independent as showing a ‘genuine unsettling talent’. It was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor Prize – the biggest prize in the world for a collection of short stories. His stories have also appeared in Prospect magazine and in anthologies including When it Changed, Parenthesis and The New Uncanny from Comma Press, two Bridport Prize collections and the British Council’s New Writing 15. He is working on his first novel. (www.adammarek.co.uk)

KATE MITCHELL was challenged by a tutor at the Arvon Foundation to put her pen where her mouth was. She started to harvest material from a colourful life and a career in criminal justice. Kate writes about ‘out-of-characters’, ordinary folk stalked by one wrong choice. Enter Frank, 79, remembering the Blitz...

FAY MUSSELWHITE messed about on the south coast of England for too long before coming to Sheffield around ten years ago to study at Hallam. Since embarking on the writing MA her poetry has appeared in a few magazines, and been placed in the occasional competition.

MAURICE RIORDAN’s most recent collection, The Holy Land, received the Michael Hartnett Award. Previous collections, A Word from the Loki and Floods, were nominated for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Award. Other books include A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems About Science and Hart Crane, which appeared in Faber’s ‘Poet to Poet’ series.

RUBY ROBINSON has lived in Sheffield since graduating from UEA in 2006. She enjoys climbing, running and cycling in the Peak District and elsewhere in the UK and Europe. Works for an environmental consultancy most of the time. Writes poems and short stories.

REBECCA SWIRSKY is 30 years old and her motto is: Never the novel – always the short story. She is still in the process of trying to find a compatible way to earn money whilst leaving enough headspace to write short stories and poetry. Any suggestions please contact her!

TIM TURNBULL lives in Scotland. His first collection, Stranded in Sub-Atomica (2005), was published by Donut Press and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. A second book, Caligula on Ice and other poems (Donut, 2009), was recently published. It includes ‘Ode on a Grayson Perry Urn’, which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem.

LOUISE WILFORD is studying poetry and children’s writing. She has had poems accepted by many publications including Acumen, Agenda, Dream Catcher, Equinox, Iota, The New Writer, Poetry Nottingham and Staple. One of her poems is currently on display at the Mirehouse in Bassenthwaite. She is working on a fantasy novel.

NOEL WILLIAMS was recently awarded Arts Council funding for his residency at Sheffield’s Bank Street Arts Centre. He’s published poems in four anthologies and 24 magazines including The North, Envoi, Iota, Orbis,The Frogmore Papers and Other Poetry. He’s won several poetry prizes and his poem ‘Skating Close’ is being considered for the Forward Prize. (http://noelwilliams.wordpress.com/)