Dr Gareth Dickson is a tutor in Creative Writing at the Oxford University Department of Continuing Education and on the Sarah Lawrence Programme at Wadham College, Oxford. He holds a PhD and MPhil in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland, Australia, where he has also taught. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies, and has been shortlisted for awards including the White Review Short Story Award and the Australian/Vogel Literary Awards.

Madeline Buday graduated summa cum laude from The Catholic University of America with a degree in English Literature. While there, she was actively involved in tutoring both for students at the university and throughout the greater community. Currently, she is in the final year of her MPhil in Modern Theology at Oxford University with a special focus on the intersection of Literature and Theology in the modern world. Most recently she has presented papers at Durham University on C.S. Lewis’s theodicy within his fiction and at Oxford University on hope and despair in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.