Contributors

Orlaine McDonald is a writer of mixed Jamaican and Irish heritage, and lives in London. This is her first novel.

Horace McCoy was born near Nashville, Tennessee in 1897. During his lifetime he travelled all over the US as a salesman and taxi-driver, and his varied career included reporting and sports editing, acting as bodyguard to a politician, doubling for a wrestler, and writing for films and magazines. A founder of the celebrated Dallas Little Theatre, his novels include I Should Have Stayed Home (1938), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1948), and They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1935), which was made into a film. He died in 1955.

Mark McCormack was named by Sports Illustrated as 'the most powerful man in sports'. A college golfer, he worked at a Cleveland law firm when he began representing a young unknown named Arnold Palmer. A host of sports celebrities in golf, tennis and other areas followed and today the company WME/IMG represents a wide array of events and clients ranging from the Nobel Foundation to Wimbledon, Novak Djokovic to Colin Montgomerie.

Justin McCurry has lived in Tokyo since 1991 and reports on Japan and South East Asia for the Guardian

Eimear McBride's debut novel A Girl is a Half-formed Thing received a number of awards including the Goldsmiths Prize, the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and Irish Novel of the Year. Her second novel The Lesser Bohemians won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. She occasionally writes and reviews for Guardian, TLS and New Statesman.

Jessica McCabe is an actress, writer and the creator of the award-winning YouTube channel How to ADHD. Offering guidance on how people with ADHD might work better with their brains, her channel has gained endorsements from treatment providers, ADHD researchers and the wider neuro-divergent community. McCabe's work has been featured by The New York Times, Washington Post, Upworthy and more. She is based in Seattle, Washington.

Elaine McArdle is an award-winning journalist, lawyer with a degree from Vanderbilt Law School, and migraineur who for twenty years has been writing for newspapers and magazines, including The Boston Globe, Boston magazine, and many others.

Anne McBride is a senior lecturer at the University of Southampton. Her area of interest is human-animal interactions and animal behaviour. She has done extensive research on rabbits and lives with bunnies in Southampton, England.

Vimala McClure is the founder of the International Association of Infant Massage.

Dr Emily Mayhew is a military medical historian specialising in the study of severe casualty, its infliction, treatment and long-term outcomes in 20th and 21st century warfare. She is historian in residence in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College, and a Research Fellow in the Division of Surgery within the Department of Surgery and Cancer. She is the author of Wounded: From Battlefield to Blight 1914-1918, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Prize 2014.

Susan Maushart was born and lives in New York. She holds a PhD in Communication Arts and Science from New York University. Her books include The Mask of Motherhood, Wifework: What Marriage Really Means for Women, and What Women Want Next all published internationally and to widespread acclaim.

Rollo May was an innovative American psychologist and psychotherapist, best known for his work in the field of existential therapy. He taught at Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California. He authored many influential books and articles, including the bestsellers Love and Will and The Meaning of Anxiety. He died in 1994.

Author Richard Maynard worked as a project manager in construction from 1975 to 1987. In 1990 he received an Australian Literature Board bursary. His books include The Coconut Book and The Quiet Place.