Mukherjee, Ankhi
Ankhi Mukherjee is Professor of English and World Literatures at Oxford. She is the author of several monographs, including the award-winning Unseen City: The Psychic Lives of the Urban Poor and What Is a Classic? Postcolonial Rewriting and Invention of the Canon. Her innovative ideas on the role of literature and the interpretive humanities in […]
McCormick, Caroline
Caroline is the Director of cultural sector consultancy company, Achates. Prior to founding Achates in 2014, she was Chief Executive of PEN International, the Literature Representative at UNESCO and an advisor to Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Professor Wangari Maathai. She is the Chair of the Cultural Philanthropy Foundation which campaigns for the democratisation of culture, […]
Michel, Caroline
Since 2007, Dame Caroline Michel has been both the CEO of literary and talent agency Peters Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) and has served as Chair and previously Trustee of Hay Literary festival. She is also Chair of the BFI Trust, a Fellow of the RSA and Vice President of the London Library and Trustee of […]
McNish, Hollie
Hollie McNish is a bestselling poet and author based between Cambridge and Glasgow. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic memoir – Nobody Told Me. She has published four further collections of poetry – Papers, Cherry Pie, Plum and Virgin, as well as her Sunday Times bestselling hybrid […]
Miller, Lucasta
Lucasta Miller is a critic and scholar, best known on both sides of the Atlantic for her influential book The Bronte Myth. Her articles and reviews have appeared in a wide range of publications, including the Guardian, where she was a longform profile-writer. Formerly deputy literary editor of the Independent, and later editorial director of Notting Hill […]
Makoha, Nick
Dr Nick Makoha is a Ugandan poet and playwright based in London and founder of Obsidian Foundation. His new collection, The New Carthaginians, is published by Penguin. Winner of the 2021 Ivan Juritz Prize and the Poetry London Prize. In 2017, Nick’s debut collection, Kingdom of Gravity, was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for […]
MacCulloch, Diarmaid
Diarmaid MacCulloch (Kt, DD, FBA) is Emeritus Professor of the History of the Church at Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford and of Campion Hall, Oxford, and prize-winning author and TV presenter. His History of Christianity: the first three thousand years (2009) won the 2010 Cundill Prize. Among his other books are Thomas Cromwell: a […]
Malcolm, Claire
Claire is the founder and CEO of New Writing North, the writing development organisation for the North of England. New Writing North produces major literary awards and prizes, festivals and events and programmes to support writers from underrepresented backgrounds to access the writing industries through projects such as the Northern Writers’ Awards and A Writing […]
McNicol, Jean
Jean has worked for the London Review of Books since 1987, starting as an editorial assistant, and was for many years the paper’s deputy editor before taking over the editorship with Alice Spawls in 2021.