Melissa Dennihy
Melissa Dennihy, Ph.D., is a Professor of English at the City University of New York, where her work focuses in part on eco-literature and environmental humanities. She is the recent recipient of a grant to support her integration of sustainability curriculum into humanities courses for community college students. She lives in New York with her dog, Pearl, a rescue from Puerto Rico.
Michael Gilmour
Michael Gilmour teaches English literature and Christian theology, and much of his writing focuses on ways these disciplines engage animal ethics. His books include Eden’s Other Residents: The Bible and Animals, Creative Compassion, Literature and Animal Welfare, and Reading the Margins: Encounters with the Bible in Fiction.
Becca Grady
Becca Grady (she/they) is a queer writer, photographer and artist whose writing was chosen in the Open Mountain Competition at the Kendal Mountain Literary Festival and has been published in Elsewhere, Perverse, Ecology and Action Magazine, and Composite Arts Magazine. Becca’s work has been supported by fellowships, workshops and grants such as Bread Loaf, Granta, Tin House Workshop, Pocoapoco, ACRE, the Katharine Bakeless Nason Scholarship, and a ChancesDances Critical Fierceness award. She lives with her partner and dog in New Mexico, US. More at beccagrady.com.
JoeAnn Hart
JoeAnn Hart is the author of the novel Float, which swirls around conceptual art, bankruptcy, and plastics in the ocean.
Jessica Hill
Jess Hill is a postgraduate student at the University of Durham. She is an English tutor and Digital Marketing Manager at small press ‘The Roaring Lion Newcastle’ interested in the environmental humanities. She enjoys travelling, reading, CrossFit and weightlifting.
Ben Mc Cabe
Ben is a PhD Researcher in environmental aspect of the arts. He is a trained architect, urbanist, artist and gardener and cares for the natural world. He is an alumnus of The King’s Foundation in the UK, Foster+Partners Architects London, and a former Course Director of the British, Irish and Australian Academies of Garden Design.
Frances Pauli
Frances Pauli writes animal fiction and speculative stories. She is the author of the Serpentia series, the Imbrium novellas, and the award-winning Earth Tigers books. Frances is a voracious reader of animal fiction, and an advocate for books of all types which illuminate the animals’ perspective.
Midge Raymond
Midge Raymond is a co-founder of Ashland Creek Press. She is the author of the novels My Last Continent and Floreana, the award-winning short story collection Forgetting English, and the suspense novel Devils Island, co-authored with John Yunker.
John Yunker
Playwright and author of the novels The Tourist Trail and Where Oceans Hide Their Dead, as well as the suspense novel Devils Island, co-authored with Midge Raymond. He is co-founder of Ashland Creek Press and editor of Writing for Animals.