Contributors

Novelist and screenwriter Andrea Newman changed the face of British culture in the seventies with her steamy television serial A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire, based on her novel of the same name. Among her more recent credits are the hugely successful A Sense Of Guilt, Imogen's Face, An Evil Streak and Pretending To Be Judith. She was born in Kent and now lives in London.

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.

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.

Leonora Nattrass studied eighteenth-century literature and politics, and spent ten years lecturing in English and publishing works on William Cobbett. She lives in Cornwall, in a seventeenth-century house with seventeenth-century draughts, and spins the fleeces of her Ryeland sheep into yarn. Her first novel, Black Drop, was published in 2021, and was a Times Book of the Year. Her second, Blue Water, was published in 2022 and was a Waterstones Thriller of the Month and shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award. Her third novel, Scarlet Town, was also shortlisted for the CWA Historical Dagger Award. Her fourth novel, standalone historical mystery The Bells of Westminster, will be published by Viper in 2024.

Gregory Neale is an alumnus of Pembroke College, which he attended as a mature student. He has had a distinguished career in national journalism. He was the founding editor of BBC History Magazine, for which he won two 'Editor of the Year' awards from the British Society of Magazine Editors, and had a lengthy spell as environment correspondent for the Sunday Telegraph, reporting from around the world in the 1980s and 1990s. He has also worked for The Times, The Guardian and The Observer among other British newspapers, and was "resident historian" for BBC Television's Newsnight programme, as well as being an honorary visiting fellow and oral historian for the University of York. Until recently years he served as co-leader of the Resurgence Trust and Editor-in-Chief of its Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.

Margaret Neale is an Adams Distinguished Professor of Management at Stanford University, where her research focuses primarily on negotiation and team performance. She is the author of over seventy articles on the topics of bargaining and negotiation. She lives in Pescadero, California.

Rebecca Nesbit is an ecologist and author, writing on science and the ethical questions it raises, in particular in relation to conservation. She is the author of Is that Fish in your Tomato?, which explored the benefits and the risks of genetically modified foods. After graduating from Durham University, she worked in scientific research, chiefly on butterfly migrations, before working on a program training honeybees to detect explosives. She has worked for the Royal Society of Biology and Nobel, and is a contributor to Scientific American, The Biologist and Popular Science.

James Nestor is an author and journalist who has written for Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, Scientific American, National Public Radio, The New York Times, Dwell Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle, and more. His book, DEEP: Freediving, renegade science, and what the ocean tells us about ourselves was released in the United States and UK in June 2014.
DEEP was a BBC Book of the Week, a PEN American Center Best Sports Book of the Year, an Amazon Best Science Book of 2014, BuzzFeed 19 Best Nonfiction Books of 2014, ArtForum Top 10 Book of 2014, New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, Scientific American Recommended Read, Christian Science Monitor Editor's Pick, and more.

An inveterate adventurer, Nestor led a surfing expedition to Norway and Russia for Outside Magazine in 2009, in which he and his team became the first to ride the breaks of the Arctic Circle. More at http://mrjamesnestor.com.

Alix Nathan lives in the Welsh Marches where she owns some ancient woodland with her husband. Her short stories have been published in Ambit, The London Magazine, New Welsh Review and read on BBC Radio 4. Her last two novels were published by Parthian Press.

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.

Barry J Nalebuff graduated from Oxford and is a professor at Yale Management School. He is co-author of Thinking Strategically. He has consulted for American Express, Citibank, General Re, IC-O, Merck, McKinsey, Proctor & Gamble, and RTZ, and is a principal of the Law and Economics Consulting Group.

One of the most important and beloved radical icons of American letters, Eileen Myles has been described as 'one of the savviest and most restless intellects in contemporary literature'. They have published twenty books of poetry, art journalism, fiction, plays and libretti, and recently appeared in the hit US TV series Transparent.

She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in non-fiction, an Andy Warhol/Creative Capital Arts Writers' grant, four Lambda Book Awards, the Shelley Prize, the Clark Prize for excellence in art writing and was named to the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List in 2015.

Myles lives in Marfa, Texas, and New York. Visit her website at www.eileenmyles.com.