Mandy Sutter’s poetry collections 'Permission to Stare' and 'Game' were published in the 1990s. Her story 'Thirst' features in Light Transports.
Tom Spanbauer lives, writes, and teaches in Portland Oregon. His four published novels Faraway Places, The Man Who Fell In Love With The Moon, In The City Of Shy Hunters and Now Is the Hour are all cult classics. His story 'Linden Trees' appears in Light Transports.
Ellen Osborne has lived in Sheffield all her life and as well as drama, films and music, she enjoys rock climbing and the Peak District. Her story 'Wait' appears in Light Transports
Mark McWatt was born in Guyana in 1947. He has published two collections of poetry, Interiors and The Language of Eldorado which won the Guyana Prize. His story 'A Love Song For Miss Lillian' features in Light Transports.
Alecia McKenzie was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1992, her first collection of short stories, Satellite City, was published winning the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. Stories from Yard, her fourth book, is published by Peepal Tree Press. Her story 'Gone to the Dogs (Madame)' features in Light Transports.
Kath McKay's novel Waiting for the Morning was published by The Women’s Press and her poetry collection Anyone Left Standing by Smith Doorstop. Her story 'Window Dressing' appears in Light Transports.
Jack Mapanje was born in Kadango, Malawi and became one of Southern Africa’s most distinguished academics. He now lives in York. He was arrested in 1987 and held without charge or trial in Mikuyu Prison and although many writers, linguists and human rights activists campaigned for his release, he was not freed until 1991. His story 'Hold Them Tight' features in Light Transports.
Margaret Storm Jameson was born into a Whitby ship building family in 1891. She helped set up the Eikonoklasts, a discussion group she described as 'sceptics, unavowed anarchists, self-dedicated to the unmasking of hypocrites'.
As President of the English Centre of International PEN from 1938-1944, Jameson helped intellectuals escape from Nazi-occupied countries, and sponsored groups of refugee writers, work which began her lifelong interest in themes of exile. Her story 'The Last Night' features in Light Transports.
Chenjerai Hove is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and columnist. For his contribution to the struggle for freedom of expression and social justice, Hove was awarded the 2001 German-Afrika Prize which is sponsored by a German parliamentary committee on international relations. His story 'The Sacrifice' features in Light Transports
Winifred Holtby wrote as a journalist for more than twenty newspapers and magazines, including The Yorkshire Post, the Manchester Guardian, the feminist journal, Time and Tide, and a regular weekly article for the trade union magazine, The Schoolmistress. She also produced a critical study of Virginia Woolf and a volume of short stories, Truth is Not Sober. Winifred's story 'The Celebrity Who Failed' features in Light Transports.
Aritha van Herk lives and works in Calgary, western Canada. She has published five novels: Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award; The Tent Peg; No Fixed Address: An Amorous Journey; Places Far From Ellesmere; and Restlessness. Her story 'Hide and Seak' appears in Light Transports.
Steven Hall was born in Derbyshire in 1975 and studied Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Steven's first novel, The Raw Shark Texts, is a story about love, loss, language and a conceptual shark and is published by Cannongate. His story 'Ten Tickets' features in Light Transports.
Patricia Duncker was born in Kingston, Jamaica Her first novel, Hallucinating Foucault, won the Dillons First Fiction Award and the McKitterick Prize and has a quiet cult status. Later novels include James Miranda Barry, The Deadly Space Between and Miss Webster and Chérif. Patricia has published two collections of short stories, Monsieur Shoushana's Lemon Trees and Seven Tales of Sex and Death. Her story 'Give Back My Book' features in Light Transports.
Steve Dearden’s short stories have been published by magazines in the UK, Australia and Finland. He works extensively to support new writing in his role as a consultant and as a director of The Writing Squad. Steve edited the Light Transports short story collections and his stories appear in Naked City and Route Compendium.
Sumeia Ali was born in Bristol and moved to Yorkshire around a year later and now lives in Dewsbury. Her story 'Estimated Time of Arrival' features in Light Transports.
M Y Alam is the author of three novels, Annie Potts is Dead, Kilo and Red Laal. He has had several short stories published and is the editor of Made in Bradford and The Invisible Village. He is a researcher and lecturer at the University of Bradford.
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