Contributors

Marek Makowski recently completed his PhD in English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he led interdepartmental writing and publishing collaborations through the Office of Sustainability. He has published articles and reviews on the history of creative experimentation, narratives in sport, and the aesthetics of digital culture and social media in Public Books, World Literature Today, the LA Review of Books, the Yale Review, and The New Republic, among others. Marek is currently writing a book, adapted from his dissertation, about how global contemporary writers experiment with form in response to the climate crisis.

Huw Marsh is a senior lecturer at Queen Mary University of London and the author of The Comic Turn in Contemporary English Fiction: Who's Laughing Now? (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) and Beryl Bainbridge (Liverpool UP, 2014). He has also written articles for Textual Practice, Adaptation, and Literary London. Published essays appear in, to name a few, The Bloomsbury Handbook to J.M. Coetzee, edited by Lucy Graham and Andrew van der Vlies (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023); Nicola Barker, edited by Berthold Schoene (Gylphi, 2020); and The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Literary Fiction, edited by Robert Eaglestone and Daniel O’Gorman (Routledge, 2018). Huw is currently writing a book about the relationship between comedy and contemporary work.

Kristi Maxwell is an associate professor at the University of Louisville and the author of Wide Ass of Night (Saturnalia Books, 2025), Goners (Green Linden Press, 2023), My My (Saturnalia Books, 2020), Bright and Hurtless (Ahsahta, 2018), PLAN/K (Horse Less Press, 2015), That Our Eyes Be Rigged (Saturnalia Books, 2014), Re- (Ahsahta Press, 2011), Hush Sessions (Saturnalia Books, 2009), and Realm Sixty-Four (Ahsahta Press, 2008). Her essays appear in Animals and Ourselves: Essays on Connection and Blurred Boundaries, edited by Kathy Stolley et al. (McFarland, 2020), and Anne Carson: Ecstatic Lyre, edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson (U of Michigan P).

Siobhan Phillips is a professor at Dickinson College and the author of Benefit (Bellevue Literary Press, 2022) and The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse (Columbia UP, 2009). Her writing also appears in the Journal of Modern Literature; The Fate of Difficulty in the Poetry of Our Time, edited by Charles Altieri and Nicholas D. Nace (Northwestern UP, 2018); and Letter Writing among Poets: From William Wordsworth to Elizabeth Bishop, edited by Jonathan Ellis (Edinburgh UP, 2015). Siobhan is currently writing a novel about place and care and an article about restaurant cookbooks.

Daniel Weston is a senior lecturer in English literature at the University of Greenwich and the author of Contemporary Literary Landscapes: The Poetics of Experience (Ashgate, 2016). He has also written articles for Compass: Journal of Learning and Teaching, the Ted Hughes Society Journal, C21 Literature, and Contemporary Literature. His essays appear in Hull: Culture, History, Place, edited by David Starkey et al. (Liverpool UP, 2017), and Haunted Landscapes: Super-Nature and the Environment, edited by Ruth Heholt and Niamh Dowing (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016). Daniel is currently working on two projects: the first concerning contemporary autofiction, the second a study of John Burnside’s last poetry collections.