Jennifer Kabat’s essays, included in The Best American Essays, are sweeping histories that interleave socialism, modernism and the natural world with her own longing for a way to understand our contemporary moment. She teaches at SVA in New York City and is a contributor to Granta magazine.  Jennifer’s twinned book-length essays The Eighth Moon and…

Jeff Melvoin is an Emmy-winning writer-producer, showrunner and educator.  Jeff has worked on over a dozen primetime series and was showrunner on eight of them. In all, he’s been involved in over 470 hours of produced television, most recently as an executive producer on season three of Killing Eve. Other executive producer credits include Designated…

Caroline is a freelance script editor. She started her career working in development for BBC Drama Series, which included helping John Yorke set up the first BBC Writers Academy. Caroline then worked on EastEnders for five years before leaving the BBC for the world of freelancery. During that time she has developed new projects with…

Rachel is a literary agent with the Ben Illis Agency and the author of six books, published by Simon & Schuster, OUP, and Scholastic US. She has a first-class degree in English Literature and Language and a PGCE in Secondary English, which she puts to good use running creative writing workshops and events for both…

Dr Midge Gilles is the author of Writing Lives: Literary Biography and co-author of Literary Non-Fiction: a Writers’ & Artists’ Companion. She is a highly experienced educator, having taught creative writing for more than 20 years at Cambridge University, as well as biography masterclasses for the University of East Anglia. Midge has always loved true stories.…

Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, founding editor of the Willowherb Review, and a Faculty Mentor on the MFA Creative Nonfiction at the University of King’s College. She is a contributor to Granta magazine. She is the author of three books of nature writing, Turning, Two Trees Make a Forest, and Dispersals…