Research Associates

Neal Hovelmeier

Neal Hovelmeier was born in Harare. Under the pseudonym Ian Holding, he has published three novels: Unfeeling (2005, shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize), Of Beasts and Beings (2010) and What Happened to Us (2018). His short fiction has appeared in the Cambridge Literary Review and received Honourable Mention in the Manchester Prize. He was a finalist for the 2014 Rolex Mentor-Protégé Initiative, and has twice been a Fellow of the Hawthornden Literary Institute. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of the Witwatersrand.

Daniel Borzutzky

Daniel Borzutzky is a poet and translator. His books include Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018 and The Performance of Becoming Human, which received the National Book Award. He has translated works by Paula Ilabaca Nuñez, Galo Ghigliotto, Raúl Zurita, and Cecilia Vicuña, among others. His poetry and translations have received awards from PEN America, ALTA, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He teaches at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Tjawangwa Dema

Tjawangwa Dema is a poet, arts administrator, and teaching artist. She is the author of The Careless Seamstress, winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize, and an/other pastoral, a finalist for the Aidoo-Snyder and Luschei Prizes. Her poetry has been translated into several languages and she has presented work in over twenty-five countries. She runs ArtsConsult Botswana and serves on various editorial and festival boards.

Dr Rosa Whitecross

Rosa Whitecross is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Bath Spa University. Her research draws on literary theory and cultural criminology to explore prison writing by women as a mode of lived testimony and resistance. She leads creative writing workshops in prison settings and is the editor of How Bleak is the Crow’s Nest. She is active in international networks on justice and narrative, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.