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.

Audrey Southgate is a currently a D.Phil. candidate in English at Merton College, Oxford, focusing her academic work on how the Book of Psalms was translated and interpreted in the Middle Ages. She holds a Master’s in Medieval Studies from Oxford, as well as a B.A. in English and French from Hillsdale College in the United States. In addition to pursuing her own studies, she is passionate about teaching. Her experience tutoring individuals in English and French, giving lectures on the humanities for interdisciplinary groups of students visiting Oxford, and mentoring current undergraduates here have only increased her enthusiasm to share the delight and learning to be found in literature.

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.