list of moxy contributors
Adam Husain
Adam is a student of Modern Languages at Oxford University.
Alice Elman
Alice is the editor of the Complete Poems of Richard Elman (1955-1997) (Junction Press, 2017) and the author of the memoir ‘What We Were Afraid Of’, which appears in Widow’s Words (Rutgers University Press, 2019).
Alice Jolly
Alice is a novelist and playwright. She has published two novels with Simon and Schuster and has been commissioned four times by the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham. She has also written for Paines Plough and her work has been performed at The Tristan Bates Theatre in Covent Garden and The Space, East London. In 2014 one of her short stories won The Royal Society of Literature’s VS Pritchett Memorial Prize. Her memoir Dead Babies and Seaside Towns was published by Unbound in July 2015, and won the PEN Ackerley Prize 2016. Her latest novel, MARY ANN SATE, IMBECILE, also published by Unbound, has been shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019. She teaches creative writing on the Mst at Oxford University.
Ann Kathryn Kelly
Ann Kathryn lives and writes in the United States, in New Hampshire’s Seacoast region. She’s a Contributing Editor with Barren Magazine, works in the technology sector, and leads writing workshops for a nonprofit that offers therapeutic arts programming to people living with brain injury. Her essays have appeared in X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, Lunate, The Coachella Review, Under the Gum Tree, the tiny journal, and elsewhere. @annkkelly
Christina Fleischer
Christina is a Founding Editor of Moxy.
Chris Walsh
Chris grew up in Middlesbrough and now lives in Kent. His debut novel, The Dig Street Festival, will be published in March 2021 by Louise Walters Books. Chris was recently interviewed by the Philip Larkin Society about Larkin’s influence on his writing. @WalshWrites
Cody Mower
Elizabeth Briggs
Elizabeth works for Arts Council England and independent publisher Saqi Books. Her writing has been published in The Punch Magazine and TACO!. Her chapbook, This Work of Art, is available from A3 Press. She was born in Worcestershire, where she now lives with her partner, who is a regenerative farmer.
Freddie Hopkinson
Freddie is an occasional writer and less occasional traveller. He lives in London. @Fred_Hopkinson
Jacob Rollinson
Jacob lived in Beijing between 2010 and 2014, and now lives in London. He has a PhD in creative and critical writing from the University of East Anglia, and has been published by NewWriting.net and SPOONFEED Magazine. His WordPress site contains short fiction and creative nonfiction.
Jaki McCarrick
Jaki is an award-winning writer of plays, poetry and fiction. Following her debut short story collection The Scattering, she was longlisted for the inaugural Irish Fiction Laureate in 2014. Her plays, which include Leopoldville, The Naturalists and Belfast Girls, have won numerous awards and been well-reviewed in The New Yorker and The New York Times. Jaki’s criticism has been published by the Times Literary Supplement, Irish Examiner, and Poetry Ireland Review. She is currently working on her second collection of short fiction and her first novel. @jakimccarrick
Jamie George
Jamie is an artist and writer based in London. He has art degrees from Goldsmiths, the Slade, and the Cambridge School of Art, and has been the recipient of a Gasworks International Fellowship, Cocheme Fellowship and Jerwood Arts artist bursary.
Jean Fleming
Jean is a poet, novelist, and essayist living in Greece. She is the author of Air Burial, a novel published by Carroll & Graf. She has traveled extensively, including an extended trip to Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa in 1995 to conduct field research on emerging use of technology in rural Africa.
Jordon Greene
Jordan Greene is a pseudonym. He could be one or more than one person.
Katie Scott-Marshall
Katie is a writer and communications professional living and working in London. She has an MA with Distinction in Modern and Contemporary Literature from Newcastle University. Her writing features in the print anthology The Bi-ble Vol 2: New Testimonials from independent publisher Monstrous Regiment, in an upcoming print anthology for Edinburgh University’s Dangerous Women project, and online with Entropy and Bright Lights Film Journal, among others. @katie_scottmars
Kavya Deshpande
Kavya Deshpande read History at the University of Oxford. She wanted to join a pre-war repertory theatre but instead became an investment banker. There’s still time.
Leonard Yip
Leonard is a writer of landscape, people, nature, and faith, and the places where these intersect. He recently graduated with an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature from the University of Cambridge, where he wrote his dissertation on multimedia representations of the ‘edgelands’ of Singapore – the landscape between city and country, with unique features and ecologies of its own. He lives and works in Singapore, where he is currently furthering his work on the edgelands and other terrains of the Anthropocene. More of his work can be found here.
Mark Blackburn
Mark is an ex shoe retailer, now writer of fiction, memoir and children’s books. He has been shortlisted for both the Fish Short Memoir Prize and the Fish Lockdown Writing Prize.
Mark Gozonsky
Mark is a frequent contributor to The Sun magazine, and has an essay forthcoming in Best American Sports Writing 2020 (Houghton-Mifflin). He lives with his wife in Los Angeles. Visit his website here. @markgozonsky
Mathis Clément
Mathis is a founding editor of Moxy, freelance writer, and tutor. His work has appeared in the London Magazine, Review 31, and the Isis.
Meg Lewis
Meg is a writer and editor based in London. A recent graduate of the Birkbeck Creative Writing MA, her work has featured in Willesden Herald New Short Stories 10 and Notes. She was awarded a special mention in the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize 2020. @meg_lewis_
Mia Farlane
Mia is a writer who hails from New Zealand but now lives in London. She has a Creative Writing MA from Middlesex University and a bilingual blog on French writers. Mia is the author of Footnotes to Sex (Viking), which was described by The Guardian as ‘subtly delicious’, and is seeking representation for her new book, Parallel Hell. @MiaFarlane
Paul Ruta
Paul is an old ad guy living in Hong Kong. He wrote a children’s book under the pen name Andy Spearman, published by Knopf. He has talked baseball with Vidal Sassoon, smoked Marlboros with Johnny Rotten, and has won a trophy for throwing a Frisbee very far. Upcoming work in Reflex Press and Smithsonian Folklife. @paulruta
Rebecca Stebbins
Rebecca is a writer based in California.
Ruskin Smith
Ruskin is a writer based in Lancaster, England.
Sara Krolewski
Sara is the Stenberg Fellow in Cultural Reporting and Criticism at NYU’s Arthur L Carter Journalism Institute. She’s also an Editor at Moxy. @sarasara_sck
Sheila J Nayar
Sheila is a Professor of English, communication and media studies at Greensboro College, North Carolina, USA.
Sue Hann
Sue is based in London. Her work was long-listed for the Spread the Word Life Writing Prize 2020. She won the Diana Woods Memorial Award in 2020. Her writing has been published in journals such as Popshot Quarterly, Longleaf Review, Multiplicity Magazine, and Brevity blog. @SYwrites.
Yin F Lim
Yin is a Malaysian-born, UK-based writer and editor. Her creative nonfiction on family, food and migration has been published in Porridge, Ghost Heart Literary Journal, Who Are We Now? A Collection of True Stories about Brexit anthology, and Hinterland magazine where she is a contributing editor. She holds a Creative Nonfiction MA from the University of East Anglia. @YinFLim
Wei Kai Ng
Wei Kai studies English Literature at the University of Oxford. When he is not studying he is usually found making small rats out of porcelain, or napping.