Contributors

Gerry Martin is an industrialist who has made the history of glass technology his hobby.

Dr Maxwell Maltz was an internationally renowned plastic surgeon, professor and lecturer, as well as a prolific author of both fiction and non-fiction, considered one of the most important authors in the field of psychology. In 1960 he published the first edition of Psycho-Cybernetics about self-image and success conditioning techniques, which has sold millions of copies in dozens of languages. He died in 1975.

Matt Furey is president of the Psycho-Cybernetics Foundation, a world title-holder in wrestling and martial arts, a bestselling fitness author and entrepreneur. He is committed to preserving and extending the legacy of Maltz's work with sold-out seminars and coaching programmes.

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Stefano Mancuso is a leading authority in plant neurobiology, which explores signalling and communication at all levels of biological organization. He teaches at the University of Florence and has been ranked 'world changer' by the New Yorker. His works, including The Revolutionary Genius of Plants and The Incredible Journey of Plants, are widely translated all over the world.

Alain Mabanckou's seven previous novels, including African Psycho, are all published by Serpent's Tail. Mabanckou teaches at UCLA, is a Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur and was awarded the Académie Française's Grand Prix de littérature. Black Moses was shortlisted for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and In the Dream House, which was the winner of the Rathbones Folio Prize. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is the Abrams Artist-in-Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

Andri Snær Magnason, master storyteller and environmental activist, is one of Iceland's most celebrated writers. He has won the Icelandic Literary Prize for fiction, children's fiction and non-fiction and his books have been translated into more than thirty languages. @AndriMagnason

Emily Maguire is the author of four novels, including the international bestseller Taming the Beast, and two non-fiction books. Her articles on feminism, sex and culture have been published widely including in The Age, The Weekend Australian and The Observer. Emily has twice been named as a Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year (2010 and 2013) and was the recipient of the 2011 NSW Writers' Fellowship. In 2014 she spent six months in Paris as the Nancy Keesing Resident at the Cite International des Arts, and has served as Writer in Residence at the Djerassi Artists Program in Northern California (2009) and as an Asialink Literature Resident in Vietnam (2008). Emily has an MA in literature and works as a teacher and mentor to young and emerging writers. She lives in Sydney.

Fraser MacDonald is a lecturer in Human Geography at Edinburgh University where he teaches historical geography and the history of science. He has a regular byline at The Guardian and has also written for Aeon Magazine, The Herald, The Age, The Australian, the LRB Books blog, amongst others publications.

Alan Macfarlane is Professor of Anthropology at Cambridge. He has often visited and taught in Japan.

Dinah Mack, a writer, earned her bachelor's degree in religious studies, and her master's in cultural anthropology.

Carol K. Mack is a playwright whose plays have been produced off-Broadway and in regional theatres across the United States. A Field Guide to Demons, Fairies, Fallen Angels & Other Subversive Spirits, written with her daughter Dinah Mack, was published by Profile Books in 2008 and in paperback as A Field Guide to Demons, Vampires, Fallen Angels & Other Subversive Spirits in 2010. Carol K. Mack has been Assistant Professor of Creative writing at New York University where she received an MA in Comparative Religious Studies in 1992.www.carolkmack.com

Richard Mainwaring is a performing musician, composer, TV presenter and educator. He has presented around 50 music films on the BBC's flagship magazine programme The One Show, and is a regular interviewee on musical matters on Jeremy Vine's BBC Radio 2 lunchtime show.

Roisin Maguire lives in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, where she works as a business manager. In 2019, she completed the Write Here… in Belfast novel-writing course, taught by Jan Carson, which was designed to discover exciting, new Northern Irish voices in fiction.