Wendy S. Walters’ critically-acclaimed book of prose, Multiply/Divide: On the American Real and Surreal was named a best book of the year in the U.S. by Buzzfeed, Flavorwire, Literary Hub, The Root, and Huffington Post. She is also the author of two books of poems. Her work appears in The Iowa Review, The Normal School, Fourth Genre, Full Bleed, Flavorwire, and Harper’s among many others. She is Associate Professor of Writing and Design at Parsons, The New School in New York. For AY 19-20, she is Visiting Associate Professor of Writing, Nonfiction at Columbia University. She is in Wellington as an International Visiting Scholar at Massey University.

Tina Makereti writes essays, novels and short fiction. Her latest novel is The Imaginary Lives of James Pōneke and she co-edited Black Marks on the White Page (2017), an anthology that celebrates Māori and Pasifika writing. In 2016 her story ‘Black Milk’ won the Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize, Pacific region. Her first novel Where the Rēkohu Bone Sings won the 2014 Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Award for Fiction, also won by her short story collection, Once Upon a Time in Aotearoa (2010). Tina teaches creative writing and Oceanic literatures at Massey University. Photo credit Robert Cross

Ingrid is an essayist, travel writer and poet. Her publications include the genre-bending Travelling with Augusta, 1835 and 1999, part travel book, part history of women’s travel, part love story, a co-edited collection, Extraordinary Anywhere: Essays on Place from Aotearoa New Zealand, a book on women’s travel with Cambridge, and two poetry collections. She has a PhD from Princeton and is Associate Professor in Creative Writing at Massey Wellington. She's currently working on an essay collection, Where We Swim. She can’t really swim but she likes it a lot. Ingrid is co-chair of the Steering Committee for NonfictioNOW2020. Photo credit Jane Ussher

David Carlin’s books include The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet, 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder, The Abyssinian Contortionist, and Our Father Who Wasn’t There. He co-edited The Near and the Far, Vols 1&2, two anthologies of new Asian and Australian writing. His award-winning essays have been published widely, including in Hunger Mountain, Overland, Meanjin, LitHub, Terrain.org, Essay Daily, Griffith Review and Westerly, and he has written and directed for film, theatre, circus and radio. David is Co-President of NonfictioNOW, and Professor of Creative Writing at RMIT University, where he co-founded WrICE and the non/fictionLab. Photo credit Esther Carlin

Robin Hemley is the author of fourteen books of fiction and nonfiction, including the forthcoming BORDERLINE CITIZEN: DISPATCHES FROM THE OUTSKIRTS OF NATIONHOOD. His work has received many awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Bellagio Arts Residency from The Rockefeller Foundation. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop and directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at Iowa for nine years. Of BORDERLINE CITIZEN, Jeff Sharlet writes, "Quite possibly the most original travel book in years." He is the founder of the NonfictioNOW Conference. Currently, he is the Jenks Chair in Creative Writing at The College of the Holy Cross.

Patrick Madden is the author of three essay collections, Disparates (2020), Sublime Physick (2016), and Quotidiana (2010); co-editor of After Montaigne (2015); and co-translator of the Selected Poems of Eduardo Milán (2012). He teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College in the USA; he curates the online anthology and essay resource www.quotidiana.org; and, with David Lazar, he edits the 21st Century Essays series at the Ohio State University Press. Photo credit Brent Rowland

Nicole Walker is the author of the collections The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet from Rose Metal Press and Sustainability: A Love Story from Mad Creek Books/OSU Press. Her previous books include Where the Tiny Things Are, Egg, Micrograms, Quench Your Thirst with Salt, and This Noisy Egg. She edited for Bloomsbury the essay collections Science of Story with Sean Prentiss and with Margot Singer, Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction. She’s nonfiction editor at Diagram and is a founding member of the MFA Program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.