New Welsh Review 135 (summer 2024): Threshold

Satterday Shaw writes fiction for adults and young adults. When she was a teenager, she wished she could be somebody else for a day, and writing is the closest she’s got. Her stories and articles have been published in Mslexia, the London Magazine, Wasafiri, the Rhys Davies Short Story Award Anthology, Wales Arts Review and other places. She lives in Eryri. Past teaching includes writing workshops for adults, including Creative Writing students, women with long-term mental health problems. She has also taught young adults, including Roma teenagers. She has worked in anti-racist education, as a family carer, and as a film and video editor.

Philippa Holloway is a writer and academic with a varied career history that includes being a goatherd, a medical technician at a racing circuit and a library assistant. Her short fiction has been published internationally, and her debut novel, The Half-life of Snails (Parthian), was longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje prize for ‘a distinguished work evoking the spirit of place’. ‘Another Place’ is from her debut story collection, Untethered, forthcoming from Parthian in September 2024.

Pippa Marland returned to academia in 2011 after a career in music. She completed a funded PhD in ecocriticism at the University of Worcester, looking at the concept of ‘islandness’ in literary nonfiction. The result, Ecocriticism and the Island: Readings from the British–Irish Archipelago, was published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2022. She has also co-edited a collection for Routledge entitled Walking, Landscape and Environment and is the co-author of Modern British Nature Writing, 1789–2020: Land Lines (Cambridge University Press, 2022). As a creative writer, she is the co-editor of, and a contributor to, Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the Twenty-first Century (Hodder and Stoughton, 2021). Pippa was recently a Leverhulme Early Career fellow in the Department of English at Bristol University, exploring the representation of farming in British nature writing. She continues to lecture in the Department of English at Bristol University.