THE NONFICTIONOW BOARD

Nicole Walker
Co-President, Flagstaff, AZ USA

Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021) Sustainability: A Love Story (2018) and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet. (2019). She has previously published the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017),  Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010).

David Carlin Co-President, AustraliaDavid Carlin’s books include the forthcoming A Survival Guide for Life in the Ruins (co-author Nicole Walker, Rose Metal Press 2019), The Abyssinian Contortionist (UWAP, 2015) and Our Father Who Wasn’t There (Scri…

David Carlin
Co-President, Melbourne, Australia

David Carlin is a writer and Professor in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, where he co-founded the non/fictionLab and WrICE.  He has published seven books, most recently the collaborative The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019) and 100 Atmospheres: Studies in Scale and Wonder (2019), and previously worked as a writer/director in film, theatre and circus. His essays have been published in journals and magazines including Overland, Meanjin, Griffith REVIEW, Hunger Mountain, Speak, Essay Daily, Westerly, Sydney Review of Books, and Speculative Nonfiction. David is a founding Contributing Editor of the journal Speculative Nonfiction and Co-President of the NonfictioNOW Conference.

Patrick Madden Vice-President, USAPatrick Madden is the author of two essay collections, Sublime Physick and Quotidiana, and co-editor of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. He curates www.quotidiana.org and, with David Lazar, …

Patrick Madden
Vice-President, Provo, UT USA

Patrick Madden is the author of three essay collections, Disparates, Sublime Physick, and Quotidiana, and coeditor of After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essays. With David Lazar he coedits the 21st Century Essays series at Ohio State University Press; with Joey Franklin he coedits the journal Fourth Genre, and he curates http://quotidiana.org. A former Fulbright and Howard Foundation fellow, he teaches at Brigham Young University and Vermont College of Fine Arts.

 
Robin Hemley Founder, USARobin Hemley founded NonfictioNOW in 2005 at The University of Iowa. He directed the Nonfiction Writing Program at The University of Iowa for nine years and is currently Professor Emeritus of the Nonfiction Writing Program, is Writer-in-Residence and Professor of Humanities at Yale-NUS College in Singapore and is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He has published twelve books of fiction and nonfiction and has won many awards for his work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes in both fiction and nonfiction.

Robin Hemley
Founder, Brooklyn, NY USA

Robin Hemley founded NonfictioNOW in 2005 at The University of Iowa. He has published fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction, most recently, the autofiction, Oblivion, An After-Autobiography (Gold Wake, 2022), The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology, co-authored with Xu Xi (Bloomsbury, 2021) and Borderline Citizen: Dispatches from the Outskirts of Nationhood (Nebraska, 2020, Penguin SE Asia, 2021). He is Director of the Polk School of Communications at Long Island University, Co-Director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing at LIU-Brooklyn, and Parsons Family Chair in Creative Writing. Learn more at Storiesthatcount.org

Elena Pasarello USAElena Passarello is the author of two essay collections, Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses, both published by Sarabande Books. Her essays have recently appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, Oxford American, …

Elena Pasarello
Corvallis, OR USA

Elena Passarello's essays have recently appeared in National Geographic, Audubon, McSweeney's, and Paris Review. She is the author of two collections, Let Me Clear My Throat and Animals Strike Curious Poses, both with Sarabande Books. Animals Strike Curious Poses was translated into five languages and appeared on "Best Books" lists in The Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, and New York Times Book Review. A 2015 Whiting Award winner, Elena teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Oregon State University and appears weekly on the nationally syndicated radio program LiveWire.

Dionne Irving
South Bend, IN USA

Dionne Irving is originally from Toronto, Ontario. She is the author of Quint (7.13 Books) and The Islands (Catapult Books). Her work has appeared in Story, Boulevard, LitHub, Missouri Review, and New Delta Review, among other journals and magazines. The Islands was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, The Scotiabank/Giller Prize, The New American Vices Award and The Clara Johnson Award.  Irving teaches in the Creative Writing Program and the Initiative on Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame.

 
 
 

Paul Cunningham
South Bend, IN USA

Paul Cunningham currently manages the Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame, where he also co-manages Action Books, an international press for poetry and translation. He is the author of Fall Garment (Schism Press, 2022) and The House of the Tree of Sores (Schism Press, 2020). His creative nonfiction has appeared in Notre Dame Review, Snail Trail, and Quarterly West. Beyond the Action Books Blog, his book reviews have appeared in DIAGRAM, Fanzine, Harvard Review, Transmotion: An Online Journal of Indigenous Studies, Heavy Feather Review, Kenyon Review, and others.

Hattie Fletcher
Pittsburgh, PA USA

Hattie Fletcher is a senior editor at Belt Publishing and a co-founder of "Short Reads," a weekly email-based publication showcasing flash nonfiction. Hattie was the managing editor at Creative Nonfiction from 2004 – 2022 and the editor of the monthly True Story magazine. Stories she's worked on have been reprinted in the Best American Essays, Best American Travel Writing and the Best Women's Travel Writing and have been awarded the Pushcart Prize..

XU XI 許素細 
Worcester, MA USA

Xu Xi is an Indonesian-Chinese novelist and writer from Hong Kong who has published fifteen books of fiction and nonfiction.  Recent nonfiction titles include a hybrid prose collection Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations (Signal 8 UK, 2022), This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (Nebraska, 2019), a short memoir Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (Penguin 2017).  She has edited several anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English, and also co-authored the writing textbook The Art and Craft of Asian Stories (Bloomsbury, 2022) with Robin Hemley.  She currently holds the Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts.