THE NONFICTIONOW BOARD

Nicole Walker
Co-President, Flagstaff, AZ 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).

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.

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, Provo, UT 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, 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

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
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.*

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.

**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.

Jessica Wilkinson is the author of three poetic biographies, Marionette: A Biography of Miss Marion Davies (2012), Suite for Percy Grainger (2014) and Music Made Visible: A Biography of George Balanchine (2019), with a fourth-in-progress on artist Mirka Mora. She is the founding editor of Rabbit: a journal for nonfiction poetry and the Rabbit Poets Series. Jessica co-edited the anthologies Contemporary Australian Feminist Poetry (2016) and Memory Book: Portraits of Older Australians in Poetry and Watercolours (2021). She is Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University, Melbourne.