THE NONFICTIONOW BOARD

David Carlin Co-President, AustraliaDavid Carlin’s books include the forthcoming A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins (co-author Nicole Walker, Rose Metal Press 2019), The Abyssinian Contortionist (UWAP, 2015) and Our Father Who Wasn’t There (Scri…

David Carlin
Co-President, Australia

David Carlin is a writer and Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, where he co-founded the non/fictionLab and WrICE.  He has published seven books, most recently the collaborative The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019) and 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019), and previously worked as a writer/director in film, theatre and circus. His essays have been published in journals and magazines including Overland, Meanjin, Griffith REVIEW, Hunger Mountain, Speak, Essay Daily, Westerly, Sydney Review of Books, and Speculative Nonfiction. David is a founding Contributing Editor of the journal Speculative Nonfiction and Co-President of the NonfictioNOW Conference.

Nicole Walker Co-President, USANicole Walker is the author of two forthcoming books Sustainability: A Love Story and A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins. Her previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst wi…

Nicole Walker
Co-President, USA

Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019)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).

Patrick Madden Vice-President, USAPatrick Madden is the author of two essay collections, Sublime Physick and Quotidiana, and co-editor of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. He curates www.quotidiana.org and, with David Lazar, …

Patrick Madden
Vice-President, USA

Patrick Madden is the author of three essay collections, Disparates, Sublime Physick, and Quotidiana, and coeditor of 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.

 
Robin Hemley Founder, USARobin Hemley founded NonfictioNOW in 2005 at The University of Iowa. He directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa for nine years and is currently Professor Emeritus of the Nonfiction Writing Program, is Writer-in-Residence and Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published twelve books of fiction and nonfiction and has won many awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and nonfiction.

Robin Hemley
Founder, 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

Tina Makereti
Aotearoa NZ

Tina Makereti is author of The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke (2018) and co-editor of 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 other books are Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings (2014) and Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa (2010). Tina teaches creative writing at Te Herenga Waka, Victoria University of Wellington. Her collection of personal essays, This Compulsion in Us, is forthcoming. She was co-chair of NFN2021.

Heidi Stalla USAHeidi Stalla is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College and Associate Director of the Writing Program. Her teaching, writing, and research interests include Twentieth Century English Literature, Transnational Modernisms…

Heidi Stalla
USA

Heidi Stalla is Assistant Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College and Associate Director of the Writing Program. Her teaching, writing, and research interests include Twentieth Century English Literature, Transnational Modernisms, Virginia Woolf, Creative Nonfiction, and Experimental Life-Writing. She is currently working on a book about the ‘mythical method’ in Virginia Woolf’s historiographical fiction, and an experimental memoir.

 
 
 
Ingrid Horrocks Aotearoa, NZ  Ingrid Horrocks is a travel writer, essayist, and poet. Her publications include Where We Swim, a blend of memoir, essay, travel, and nature writing, published in New Zealand and Australia in 2021, a co-edited collectio…

Ingrid Horrocks
Aotearoa, NZ

Ingrid Horrocks is a travel writer, essayist, and poet. Her publications include Where We Swim, a blend of memoir, essay, travel, and nature writing, published in New Zealand and Australia in 2021, a co-edited collection, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand, and a book on women wanderers with Cambridge University Press. She is a Professor in Creative Writing and English at Massey University and was co-chair of the Aotearoa-New Zealand steering committee for of NFN 2021.

Wendy S. Walters USAWendy S. Walters’s book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal, was named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, and Huffington Post. She is the author of two books of poems,…

Wendy S. Walters
USA

Wendy S. Walters’s book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal, was named a best book of the year by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, and Huffington Post. She is the author of two books of poems, Troy, Michigan and Longer I Wait, More You Love Me; a founding director of Essay in Public | A Humanities Project; and a Contributing Editor at The Iowa Review. Walters is Associate Dean of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons and Associate Professor of Literary Studies at Eugene Lang College at The New School.

Elena Pasarello USAElena Passarello is the author of two essay collections, Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses, both published by Sarabande Books. Her essays have recently appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, …

Elena Pasarello
USA

Elena Passarello's essays have recently appeared in National GeographicAudubon, 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 GuardianPublisher'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.