Contributors

Lynne Alexander

Lynne was born in New York and made her first career as a harpsichordist. Her musical studies took her to Europe, and she eventually settled in Lancaster, where she completed her first two novels, Safe Houses and Resonating Bodies.

Her other works are Taking Heart (1991) and Adolf's Revenge (1994). Her newly completed novel The Second Most Dangerous Woman in America is informed by the life of the early anarchist Emma Goldman, for which she won an Art's Council award.

Lynne Alexander has worked as Writer-in residence at hospices in Lancaster and Oxford, and teaches the novel option on the MA Writing course at Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Lesley Glaister

Lesley was born in Wellingborough in 1956 and lives in Sheffield. Her first novel, Honour Thy Father, won the Somerset Maugham Award. In 1993 she was named Yorkshire Author of the Year for Limestone and Clay. Her other novels are Trick or Treat, Digging to Australia, Partial Eclipse, The Private Parts of Women and, most recently, Easy Peasy.

Her short stories have been widely published andbroadcast. She has been a Writing Tutor at the University of Sheffield's School of Continuing Education and tutors regularly at the Arvon Foundation. As well as being an occasional book reviewer she has been a judge for the Betty Trask Awards, and acts as External Examiner to a couple of university writing programmes.

Lesley Glaister, who teaches the novel option at Sheffield Hallam University, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

 

E. A. Markham

Born on the West Indian island of Montserrat in 1939, 'Archie' grew up in London in the 1950s and read English and Philosophy at university. He has worked in theatre, directing the Caribbean Theatre Workshop in the West Indies (1970-71). For two years in the 1970s he was a member of the Co operative Ouvriere du Batiment restoring houses in the South of France, and (1983-85) worked as a Media Co-ordinator in Papua New Guinea.

He has been involved in editing Ambit, Artrage and Writing Ulster magazines, and now edits Sheffield Thursday. He also organises the biennial Hallam Literature Festival. He has published six collections of poetry and two of short stories. His recent work includes Misapprehensions (poetry, Anvil 1995), The Penguin Book of Caribbean Short Stories (1996), A Papua New Guinea Sojourn: More Pleasures of Exile (travel, Carcanet 1998), Between a Rock and a Hard Place (a play) and Marking Time (a 'campus' novel, Peepal Tree Press, 1999).

In 1997 Markham was awarded a Certificate of Honour by the Government of Montserrat and is Professor of Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Livi Michael

Livi Michael (whose PhD thesis explored Early Working Class Writing) runs reading groups on Women's Fiction in the 20th Century at Waterstone's in Manchester, and is involved in research on women writers who explore aspects of the 'working class' experience. She also teaches at Sheffield Hallam University.

Livi Michael has published short stories. Her novels (with Secker and Warburg) are: Under a Thin Moon (which won the Arthur Welton Award in 1992), Their Angel Reach (which won the 1995 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Society of Authors Award) and All the Dark Air, which was shortlisted for the Mind Book of the Year Award, 1996. Her novel Inheritance is due to be published by Viking/Penguin in May 2000.

 

Sean O'Brien

Sean O'Brien is poetry critic of The Sunday Times and a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement, The Poetry Review, etc. His book, The Deregulated Muse: Essays on Contemporary Poetry from Britain and Ireland (Bloodaxe) came out in 1998. His major collections of poetry have attracted critical attention: The Indoor Park (Bloodaxe, 1987 - Cholmondely Award), HMS Glasshouse (OUP, 1991 - E.M. Forster Award) and Ghost Train (OUP, 1995 - Forward Prize).

Sean O'Brien is represented in The New Poetry (1993), in the forthcoming The Book of the North and the Penguin Book of Contemporary Poetry from Britain and lreland (1998). He appeared in Penguin Modern Poets 5 (1995) and has edited a poetry anthology, The Firebox: Poetry in Britain and Ireland After I945 (Picador, 1998).

Sean is founding editor of the literary magazine The Devil and teaches poetry at Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Tracey O'Rourke

Tracey teaches creative writing and is currently completing the MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University. She is on the Main Board of Proof and is one of its founding members.

 

Janice Schneider (original artwork)

Janice is in her final year of a BA (Hons) Fine Art Degree (Combined and Media) at Sheffield Hallam University. Her work focusses on social-issues.

e-mail: Janice.Schneider@moislers.freeserve.co.uk

 

Jennifer Seibert

Jennifer is from Chicago and is taking the MA in Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.

e-mail: Jennifer.Seibert@student.shu.ac.uk

 

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