Bio: Issy McCann. Marlowe and Christie Prize Judge Team Leader. Favours silk pyjamas for writing. Also goes by Isabel.

Bio: I am a fiction writer living in Chicago, US. I earned an MFA and am the Poet and Author Fellow for Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing.

Bio: I am an African American mixed-race writer from the midwest. I write mostly short stories but have two novels in progress right now.