Contributors

Jessica Soffer was born and raised in New York City and earned her MFA in Fiction at Hunter College. Her work has appeared in Granta, The New York Times, Saveur, Wall Street Journal and Vogue, and she is the author of the novel Tomorrow There Will be Apricots.

Roger Smith was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and now lives in Cape Town. Before turning to a life of crime, he was a screenwriter, producer and director.

Amanda Smyth is Irish/Trinidadian. She completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2000. Her short stories have been published in New Writing, London Magazine, and broadcast on Radio 4 as part of a series called Love and Loss. Her first novel, Black Rock [9781846687020], was published by Serpent's Tail in 2009.

Sebastian Smee is the arts critic for the Boston Globe, and has written for the Australian, Daily Telegraph, Guardian, The Times, Financial Times, Independent on Sunday, Art Newspaper and the Spectator. He is the author of the books Lucian Freud and Side by Side: Picasso v Matisse. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism for his 'vivid and exuberant writing about art, often bringing great works to life with love and appreciation'.

Laurence C. Smith is professor and vice-chairman of geography and professor of earth and space sciences at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has published in journals such as Science and Nature and in 2006 he briefed Congress on the likely impacts of northern climate change. The hardback was published by Profile in 2011 [9781846688768].

Dr Kathleen Smith is a licensed therapist and mental health writer. She has written for popular publications such as Slate, Salon, New York Magazine, Lifehacker, Bustle, and Counseling Today, among many others. She completed her PhD in Counseling at George Washington University, and she teaches as an adjunct professor at Trinity Washington University and George Washington University. She also serves as an associate faculty member of Georgetown's Bowen Center for the Study of the Family.

David Smith is Economics Editor of the Sunday Times and the author of a number of books including The Dragon and the Elephant [9781847650474] and classic guide to economics Free Lunch [9781781250112].

Cath Smith is a qualified social worker with deaf people and a registered BSL interpreter.

Richard Smyth is a writer and cartoonist. He's a regular contributor to magazines including History Today, Bird Watching and New Humanist and his creative writing has appeared in Cent, Vintage Script, The Fiction Desk and The Stinging Fly.

Alan Sokal is Professor of Physics at the University of New York. In 1996 his infamous article 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity' parodying post-modernists' use of scientific terminology was published by the American journal Social Text in all seriousness.

Mark Solms has spent his entire career investigating the mysteries of consciousness. Best known for identifying the brain mechanisms of dreaming and for bringing psychoanalytic insights into modern neuroscience, he is director of neuropsychology in the Neuroscience Institute of the University of Cape Town, honorary lecturer in neurosurgery at the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine, and an honorary fellow of the American College of Psychiatrists.

Roy Sorensen never told you that he is the son of Ted Sorensen, President Kennedy's speech writer and confidant. For it is not true. Roy Sorensen is a professor of philosophy at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Seeing Dark Things</i>; A Brief History of the Paradox</i>; Thought Experiments</i>; and Blindspots.