Contributors

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four collections of poems, including, most recently, Oceanic, winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award. Other awards for her writing include fellowships and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell. Her writing appears in Poetry, the New York Times Magazine and Tin House. She serves as poetry faculty for the Writing Workshops in Greece and is professor of English and creative writing in the University of Mississippi's MFA program.

Ali Nolan is a journalist and writer based in Utah, USA. As the former features editor and current contributor for Runner's World, she is active in empowering women in the running world, having spoken at the Under Armour Women's Panel, Donna Marathon Pre-Race Dinner, and
other events. She has completed two road marathons, a trail marathon, and other races.

Nathan Oates's debut collection of short stories, The Empty House, won the 2012 Spokane Prize. He is an associate professor at Seton Hall University, where he teaches creative writing. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his family. A Flaw in the Design is his debut novel.

Michel Nieva is an Argentinian writer based in New York, where he teaches Writing at NYU. Nominated among Granta's Best of Young Spanish-Language Novelists in 2021 and a winner of the O. Henry Award in 2022, Nieva has previously published short stories and essays. Dengue Boy is his
first novel.

After leaving Oxford, Edward Norfolk worked as an accountant with Coopers & Lybrand before setting up his own bottled LPG company, now part of Esso. He then set up
a waste management company before selling it to Viridor in 2002. He is currently involved in ten private equity start-up companies as an adviser, and spends a lot of his time running his family estates. As the Duke of Norfolk, he is also the Earl Marshal and was responsible for delivering the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and the coronation of King Charles III.

Chris Newens is a writer originally from southwest London, where his family ran the same bakery and tea rooms for six generations. After gaining a degree in Anthropology from the London School of Economics, he moved to Paris, where he has lived for more than a decade. He won the 2024 Jane Grigson Trust Award for new food writers for Moveable Feasts.

Robert Newman is an award-winning author, comedian and broadcaster. Intelligence is his seventh book. He has written and starred in many television and radio shows, including Robert Newman's Total Eclipse of Descartes, History of Oil and No Planet B. He has performed in sold-out stand-up shows all over the world. He lives in London with his family.

Raha Nik-Andish is the pen name for a writer, translator and art historian who lives in Tehran. He has written features and essays for The London Review of Books and The Markaz Review. Tehran Diaries is his first collection.

Niall Murtagh grew up in Dublin. After hitchhiking across Europe, Asia, Australia and Latin America in the 1980s, he settled down in Japan, first as a student, then as an ordinary employee of Mitsubishi. He has written for various publications, in both English and Japanese, on travel, technology and corporate culture. He works as a translator and lectures in Hosei University, Tokyo.

Claire Nahmad was the author of many books on healing, herbalism, magic and local folklore, including Fairy Spells, which has sold over 80,000 copies. She passed away in 2021.

Steven Naifeh is, with Gregory White Smith, the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize winning biography of Jackson Pollock (the basis for the film Pollock), which was also a finalist for the National Book Award and a NYT bestseller; and the co-author of Van Gogh.