Julia Bell graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1996. She is the author of two novels for young adults, Massive and Dirty Work, and co-edited (with Paul Magrs) The Creative Writing Coursebook. She taught on the undergraduate programme for several years after graduation and currently teaches at Birkbeck.

John Boyne graduated from the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 1995. He is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling, multi-award-winning The Boy In the Striped Pyjamas. He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2005.

Lynne Bryan is a graduate of the MA in Creative Writing at UEA and a regular tutor for the Arvon Foundation. She is the author of a short story collection, Envy At The Cheese Handout, published by Faber & Faber, and two novels, Gorgeous and Like Rabbits, published by Sceptre. She teaches on the undergraduate programme.

Aifric Campbell completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2003 and a PhD in 2007. She is the author of three novels: The Semantics of Murder (2008), The Loss Adjustor (2010), and the Orange Prize nominated On The Floor (2012). She taught on the undergraduate programme in 2006 and 2007.

Doug Cowie completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2000 and a PhD in 2007. His first novel Owen Noone and the Marauder was published by Canongate in 2005. He taught on the undergraduate programme between 2003 and 2005 and currently teaches at Royal Holloway.

Alistair Daniel completed an MA in Creative Writing with distinction at Goldsmiths College in 2002 and became the Charles Pick Writing Fellow at UEA in 2004. He has taught at St Martin’s College of Art in London, and is shortly to complete his first novel. He taught on the undergraduate programme in 2005.

Jill Dawson won an Eric Gregory Award for her poetry, has edited several collections of short stories, and is the author of seven novels, including Fred and Edie, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award and the Orange Prize. She was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes between 2002 and 2004.

Louis de Bernieres is the author of eight novels, including the international bestseller Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, which won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. He is one of UEA’s Distinguished Writing Fellows, and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2002.

Joe Dunthorne graduated with first class honours from UEA's undergraduate Creative Writing degree in 2004, and with distinction from the Creative Writing MA in 2005, and was the recipient of the inaugural Curtis Brown Award. His first novel Submarine was published by Hamish Hamilton in 2008 and subsequently adapted for cinema. He was published in the Faber New Poets series in 2010 and his second novel Wild Abandon was the winner of the 2012 Encore Award. Joe taught on the undergraduate programme in 2007.

Bernadine Evaristo is the author of four novels, including Blonde Roots (2009), which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and a collection of poetry. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts and was a Writing Fellow at UEA in 2002, when she taught on the undergraduate programme.

Elaine Feinstein is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of fourteen novels, a large body of journalism, several radio plays and TV dramas, and five biographies, most recently Anna Of All The Russias (2005). Her poetry has been widely translated and her Collected Poems and Translations (2002) was a Poetry Society Special Commendation. She taught on the MA programme in the late 1970s.

Alison Fell is a poet and novelist and has written journalism for a number of magazines, including 'Spare Rib'. She was joint winner of the Boardman Tasker Memorial Prize for her novel Mer de Glace and was a Writing Fellow at UEA in 1998, when she taught on the undergraduate programme.

Laura Fish completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2002 and a PhD in 2007. She is the author of Flight of Black Swans (1995) and Strange Music (2008). She taught on the undergraduate programme between 2004 and 2006 and currently teaches at Newcastle University.

David Flusfeder graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 1988 and has published six novels, most recently A Film by Spencer Ludwig (2010). He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2004.

Roger Garfitt is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Given Ground (1989), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2001.

Jim Goar completed his MFA in Creative Writing at Naropa's Jack Kerouac School and his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2012. His first full-length collection of poems, Seoul Bus Poems, was published by Reality Street Press in 2010. He is the editor of the online Journal, past simple, and taught on the undergraduate programme in 2011.

Richard House is the author of two novels, Bruiser, and The Uninvited, and won an Arts Council Writer’s Award for his novel-in-progress. He was Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University, and completed his Creative & Critical PhD at UEA in 2008. He taught on the undergraduate programme for several years before joining the University of Birmingham.

Claire Hynes graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 2004 and gained a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2012. She is an experienced radio, TV and print journalist and is soon to complete her first novel. She has taught Journalism and Prose Fiction on the undergraduate programme.

Russell Celyn Jones is the author of seven novels, including An Interference of Light (1995), Surface Tension (2001), and Second Nature (2005). He reviews regularly for the national newspapers and was a Booker Prize Judge in 2002. He was a Writing Fellow at UEA and taught on the MA programme between 1993 and 1995. He is a Professor of Creative Writing at Birkbeck.

Vikram Kapur completed his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA in 2010. Born in India and an experienced teacher in India, the USA and the UK, he is the author of two novels, Time Is A Fire (2002) and The Wages Of Life (2004). He taught on the undergraduate programme.

Stephen Knight has taught widely in schools and universities and is the author of three collections of poetry, two of which have been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize - Flowering Limbs (1993) and Dream City Cinema (1996). His novel Mr Schnitzel (2000) won the Arts Council of Wales Book of the Year in 2001. He taught on the MA in Prose Fiction in 2003-4. He currently teaches at Goldsmiths.

Michael Laskey founded the international Aldburgh Poetry Festival in 1989 and the Smith’s Knoll poetry journal in 1991. He has published three collections of poetry, including The Tightrope Wedding, which was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize. He taught poetry on the undergraduate programme for several years.

Agnes Lehoczky is a Hungarian-born poet and translator who also graduated from the Creative Writing MA in 2006 and the PhD in Creative and Critical Writing in 2011. She has published two short poetry collections in Hungarian, and two collections in English: Budapest to Babel (2008) and Rememberer (2012). Her collection of essays on the poetry of Agnes Nemes Nagy was also published in 2011, and she currently teaches Creative Writing at the University of Sheffield, having taught for several years on the undergraduate programme at UEA.