Raffaella Barker is the author of eight novels, including Come and Tell Me Some Lies (1994), A Perfect Life (2006), and Poppyland (2008). She has written short stories for the radio and journalism for the Sunday Times, Spectator, Country Life and Harpers Bazaar. She has taught for the charity First Story and for the Arvon Foundation, and was the Royal Literary Fund writing fellow at UEA in 2011-12. She teaches on the undergraduate programme.

Bernardo Bueno was the first student in Brazil to complete an MA with a Creative Writing component, and is the recipient of a Brazilian government scholarship to undertake a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA. He has published short stories in numerous journals and anthologies in Brazil, and his first collection, Minimundo, was the recipient in 2007 of the ‘South, National and Books Literary Award’ Best New Author prize, as well as being shortlisted for the Açorianos Award for the Best Short Story Collection.

Nick Caistor is a radio and print journalist and presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Crossing Continents. He has published several anthologies of Latin American literature and translated ten novels. He teaches the undergraduate journalism course and in 2010 became UEA’s Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow.

Jonathan Gibbs completed the MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2009 and is currently completing his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing while writing his first novel Randall, or The Painted Grape. He is a regular reviewer of literary fiction for the Independent, the Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and the TLS. He teaches on the undergraduate programme.

Andrea Holland has published poems in a wide range of journals and was co-winner of the 2007 Poetry Business Competition. She was Course Leader of the MA in Writing the Visual at Norwich School of Art & Design and teaches on UEA’s undergraduate programme.

Anjali Joseph graduated from the UEA Creative Writing MA in 2008 and is currently studying for a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. She has taught English at the Sorbonne, written for the Times of India in Bombay, and been a Commissioning Editor for ELLE (India). Her first novel Saraswati Park was published in 2010, and Anjali and was included in The Daily Telegraph's list of Britain's best 20 novelists under the age of 40.

Philip Langeskov was born in Copenhagen in 1976 and graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing MA in 2009, when he was the recipient of that year’s David Higham Award. He is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA. His stories have appeared in The Decadent Handbook, Bad Idea Magazine, Untitled Books, Five Dials, The Warwick Review, The Best British Short Stories 2011, and on the BBC.

Mark McNay completed an MA in Creative Writing at UEA in 2004. His first novel Fresh was published in 2007 and won an Arts Foundation Award of £10,000. His second novel Under Control was published in 2008. He has taught on the undergraduate programme since 2006.

K R Moorhead is originally from Philadelphia and came to UEA as an undergraduate exchange student. She subsequently returned to take the MA in Creative Writing, from which she graduated in 2007. Her debut novel, The First Law of Motion, was published by St Martin’s Press in 2009. She teaches on the undergraduate creative writing programme.

Sam Riviere completed his BA at the Norwich School of Art and Design and his MA at Royal Holloway in 2006. He co-edits the poetry anthology series Stop Sharpening Your Knives and is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing at UEA. In 2009 he received an Eric Gregory Award and he was recently published in the Faber New Poets scheme. He teaches on the undergraduate programme.

D.W. Wilson joined UEA from the University of Victoria in Canada in 2009 as the inaugural recipient of the Booker Foundation bursary. He graduated from the MA in Creative Writing in 2010 and is currently completing his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. His debut short story collection Once You Break A Knuckle was published in the UK by Bloomsbury in 2012. A story from the collection, 'The Dead Roads' was the winner of the 2011 BBC National Short Story Award.

Naomi Wood graduated from UEA’s Creative Writing MA in 2008 and is currently completing a PhD in Creative and Critical Writing. Her first novel The Godless Boys was published by Picador in 2011, and she is currently working on Mrs Hemingway, a historical novel exploring the lives of Ernest Hemingway’s four wives. In 2012 she became one of the two inaugural Writers-in-Residence at the British Library’s Eccles Centre for American Studies.