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Her work appears in The Iowa Review, The Normal School, Fourth Genre, Full Bleed, Flavorwire, and Harper’s among many others. She is Associate Professor of Writing and Design at Parsons, The New School in New York. For AY 19-20, she is Visiting Associate Professor of Writing, Nonfiction at Columbia University. She is in Wellington as an International Visiting Scholar at Massey University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1568709558033-UEAZ7YLWU0ZFQN146RS7/wendy-s-walters-04-20-2016-326.jpg Speakers Gallery - Wendy S. Walters Wendy S. Walters’ critically-acclaimed book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal was named a best book of the year in the U.S. by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, and Huffington Post. She is also the author of two books of poems. Her work appears in The Iowa Review, The Normal School, Fourth Genre, Full Bleed, Flavorwire, and Harper’s among many others. She is Associate Professor of Writing and Design at Parsons, The New School in New York. For AY 19-20, she is Visiting Associate Professor of Writing, Nonfiction at Columbia University. She is in Wellington as an International Visiting Scholar at Massey University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1568709931471-QIH68EO35WZMFMQXWJB3/Tina_Makereti_RobertCross+-+Tina+Makereti.jpg Speakers Gallery - Tina Makereti Tina Makereti writes essays, novels and short fiction. Her latest novel is The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke and she co-edited Black Marks on the White Page (2017), an anthology that celebrates Māori and Pasifika writing. In 2016 her story ‘Black Milk’ won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, Pacific region. Her first novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings won the 2014 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Award for Fiction, also won by her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa (2010). Tina teaches creative writing and Oceanic literatures at Massey University. Photo credit Robert Cross https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1568709977348-L23LSDRDNGHJ9VAUOTM5/INGRID_cropped+Jane+Ussher+Photo+-+ingrid+Horrocks.jpg Speakers Gallery - Ingrid Horrocks Ingrid is an essayist, travel writer and poet. Her publications include the genre-bending Travelling with Augusta, 1835 and 1999, part travel book, part history of women’s travel, part love story, a co-edited collection, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand, a book on women’s travel with Cambridge, and two poetry collections. She has a PhD from Princeton and is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Massey Wellington. She's currently working on an essay collection, Where We Swim. She can’t really swim but she likes it a lot. Ingrid is co-chair of the Steering Committee for NonfictioNOW2020. Photo credit Jane Ussher https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1568710062508-RE82KGTX7ZPNBEL5MM5Z/David_Carlin_Photo+by+Esther+Carlin+-+David+Carlin.jpeg Speakers Gallery - David Carlin David Carlin’s books include The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder, The Abyssinian Contortionist, and Our Father Who Wasn’t There. He co-edited The Near and the Far, Vols 1&2, two anthologies of new Asian and Australian writing. His award-winning essays have been published widely, including in Hunger Mountain, Overland, Meanjin, LitHub, Terrain.org, Essay Daily, Griffith Review and Westerly, and he has written and directed for film, theatre, circus and radio. David is Co-President of NonfictioNOW, and Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University, where he co-founded WrICE and the non/fictionLab. Photo credit Esther Carlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1568805503920-DMTZG4NGN6BXCE4QDTNR/Bencab+photo+Robin+-+Robin+Hemley.jpg Speakers Gallery - Robin Hemley Robin Hemley is the author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including the forthcoming BORDERLINE CITIZEN: DISPATCHES FROM THE OUTSKIRTS OF NATIONHOOD. His work has received many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Bellagio Arts Residency from The Rockefeller Foundation. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at Iowa for nine years. Of BORDERLINE CITIZEN, Jeff Sharlet writes, "Quite possibly the most original travel book in years." He is the founder of the NonfictioNOW Conference. Currently, he is the Jenks Chair in Creative Writing at The College of the Holy Cross. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1568710183120-W16L6IUFQXIIFYS43CMS/Patrick_Madden_BrentRowland+-+Patrick+Madden.jpg Speakers Gallery - Patrick Madden Patrick Madden is the author of three essay collections, Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016), and Quotidiana (2010); co-editor of After Montaigne (2015); and co-translator of the Selected Poems of Eduardo Milán (2012). He teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College in the USA; he curates the online anthology and essay resource www.quotidiana.org; and, with David Lazar, he edits the 21st Century Essays series at the Ohio State University Press. 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She has previously published the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1518473039232-NBZJ1YDZHFY18V47AEWS/David+headshot.jpg The Board David Carlin Co-President, Melbourne, Australia David Carlin’s nonfiction books include the forthcoming How to Dress for Old Age (Upswell, 2026), co-written with Peta Murray. Also: The After-Normal (2019), 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019), Our Father Who Wasn’t There (2010), The Abyssinian Contortionist (2015), and the co-edited A–Z of Creative Writing Methods (2023). His award-winning essays have been widely published, and he has written and directed for radio, film, theatre, and circus. David is Emeritus Professor at RMIT University and co-founder of WrICE and the non/fictionLab research group. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1480065952584-BFWQUK56PGEGEQ0FXMC3/image-asset.jpeg The Board Patrick Madden Vice-President, Provo, UT USA Patrick Madden is the author of four essay collections, Recenses/Recencies, Disparates, Sublime Physick, and Quotidiana, and coeditor of Fourth Genre: 25 Essays from Our First 25 Years and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. With David Lazar he coedits the 21st Century Essays series at Ohio State University Press; with Joey Franklin he coedits the journal Fourth Genre, and he curates http://quotidiana.org. A former Fulbright and Howard Foundation fellow, he teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1519005923207-9BC9VTO61J75EAKYE3L9/Bencab+photo+Robin.jpg The Board Robin Hemley Founder, Brooklyn, NY USA Robin Hemley founded NonfictioNOW in 2005 at The University of Iowa. He has published fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently, the autofiction, Oblivion, An After-Autobiography (Gold Wake, 2022), The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored with Xu Xi (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Nebraska, 2020, Penguin SE Asia, 2021). He is Director of the Polk School of Communications at Long Island University, Co-Director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing at LIU-Brooklyn, and Parsons Family Chair in Creative Writing. Learn more at Storiesthatcount.org https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/1518473141288-Z433GAQ8Q0O9SBSRZ3PU/elena.jpg The Board Elena Pasarello Corvallis, OR USA Elena Passarello's essays have recently appeared in National Geographic, Audubon, McSweeney's, and Paris Review. She is the author of two collections, Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses, both with Sarabande Books. Animals Strike Curious Poses was translated into five languages and appeared on "Best Books" lists in The Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, and New York Times Book Review. A 2015 Whiting Award winner, Elena teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Oregon State University and appears weekly on the nationally syndicated radio program LiveWire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/c4f15176-8d3b-4535-949f-1dd10c30aaa1/Dionne%2BIrving_8.jpg The Board - Make it stand out Dionne Irving South Bend, IN USA Dionne Irving is originally from Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of Quint (7.13 Books) and The Islands (Catapult Books). Her work has appeared in Story, Boulevard, LitHub, Missouri Review, and New Delta Review, among other journals and magazines. The Islands was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Scotiabank/Giller Prize, The New American Vices Award and The Clara Johnson Award. Irving teaches in the Creative Writing Program and the Initiative on Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/06aae197-0903-49ca-9145-79142ede4b34/BW+%281%29+%281%29.jpg The Board - Make it stand out Paul Cunningham South Bend, IN USA Paul Cunningham currently manages the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame, where he also co-manages Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation. He is the author of Fall Garment (Schism Press, 2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (Schism Press, 2020). His creative nonfiction has appeared in Notre Dame Review, SnailTrail, and Quarterly West. Beyond the Action Books Blog, his book reviews have appeared in DIAGRAM, Fanzine, Harvard Review, Transmotion: An Online Journal of Indigenous Studies, Heavy Feather Review, Kenyon Review, and others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/9f468fda-0dc5-4beb-a1a9-8c4ca3c134a3/Jess+copy.jpg The Board - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/56c41e694c2f85372f0ad8b5/44c25b91-2ef3-4dcf-8bd6-d124c277b3fc/hattie.jpg The Board Hattie Fletcher Pittsburgh, PA USA Hattie Fletcher is one of the co-founders of Short Reads, a free literary email featuring flash nonfiction, and the prose editor at Autumn House Press. She has also been a senior editor at Belt Publishing and is the former managing editor of Creative Nonfiction and True Story magazines. Fletcher also teaches “Editing for Writers” at the University of Pittsburgh. 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