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Author Category: Short Story Author

Fiona J. Mackintosh was born in New Jersey to expat Brits who brought her back to the old country and raised her in a Scottish fishing village. Aged 30, after a short career in journalism in London, she went back to the US with just two suitcases and no prospects, and has lived there ever since. She

Angela Townsend has been the Development Director at Tabby’s Place, a cat sanctuary, for over sixteen years. This was not the path she expected with a seminary degree, but love is a wry author of lives. She delights in bearing witness to mercy for all beings. She graduated from Princeton Seminary

Yisol Jo was born and raised in South Korea and the Philippines, and later lived and studied in New York City, where she received a graduate fellowship from the NYU Creative Writing Program. A recipient of a translation grant from the Daesan Foundation in South Korea, Yisol Jo continues to be fascin

Matthew Twigg lives with his wife and two children near Oxford, where he works as an editor for an academic publisher. He completed a PhD in 2015 on the topic of ancient Gnostic literature. His thesis was adapted and published as The Valentinian Temple: Visions, Revelations, and the Nag Hammadi Apoc

Erika Banerji was born in Assam and grew up in New Delhi. As a child Erika Banerji learnt to read and write Bengali and Hindi. At school she won prizes for her short stories written in Hindi and then at sixteen she won first prize in a national writing competition in English. She went on to study

Mark Andrew has a career in design with over forty international conference publications. Born in Germany (an ‘army brat’) to English parents, his first job after graduation was for De Beers in Namibia. He returned to London for post-graduate education and then emigrated to Australia. After trai

Leon Coleman lives and writes in Manchester, England. His first publication was in 2019, when he placed third in the Henshaw Press Short Story Competition. Since then, Leon’s fiction has appeared in Litro, The London Reader, The Fiction Pool, Bandit, Literally Stories, Misery Tourism, Henshaw Thre

Subramani Mani trained as a physician in India and then moved to the US to pursue graduate studies. Currently, he splits his time between his adopted and native lands. He started writing, feeling the urge to share the memories of certain life experiences and perspectives which could not be done with

Elise Tyson is a writer and filmmaker from Naarm, Australia. Her writing has been published in The Guardian and her short film St Bernie won awards at various film festivals worldwide, including Best National Film at Canberra Short Film Festival. She lives in London. Her favourite thing in the world

Jerri Jerreat’s writing, from Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory, also appears in Grist/Fix: Imagine 2200 Climate Fiction, Flyway: Journal of Writing & Environment, Onyx Publications, Alluvian, Solarpunk Creatures, Every Day Fiction, Fictive Dreams, Fiction on the Web, Feminine Collective