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Emma Penruddock is a short story author, whose stories have been shortlisted and longlisted for a number of short story competitions.  She lives with her quite grown-up children in a deserted cottage just outside the garrison town of Youghal, County Cork.   Q: If you could travel back in

Jasper Cairns is an amateur short-story author based in the East Midlands who very much enjoys bananas. Though he also has been known to eat oranges and apples, bananas would definitely be his favourite. He also makes short films.   Q: If you could travel back in time, which of the great

Linda Scotto is from New York, New York.  Some of the places her work has previously appeared in are Oyez Review, Redivider and Bayou Magazine. She is currently at work on her first fiction novel.   Q: If you could travel back in time, which of the great writers would you like to meet an

Athena Gaga, MSc (Dist), MA, BEng, is the author of Mehen, the Oracle and the Time Movers (2019) and Iliad Shattered (2022). She lives in Greece with her son, a young adult with special needs, and her parents.   Q: Is there a book that you keep going back to, and if so, how many times hav

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, she continues to be fascinated

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