Janet Wolff is Professor Emerita in the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University of Manchester. She has also taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Rochester (New York), and Columbia University. She is the author of seven books on aesthetics and the sociology of art and culture. She has recently completed a book, Austerity Baby, which combines memoir, family history, cultural criticism and visual imagery. Janet will read from this work, discussing how bodies of knowledge can be approached and created in creative nonfiction. Austerity Baby will be published by MUP in Spring 2017.

Matthew Green is the author of Aftershock: the untold story of surviving peace. Over the last decade, the UK has sent thousands of people to fight on our behalf. But what happens when these soldiers come back home, having lost their friends and killed their enemies, having seen and done things that have no place in civilian life? In Aftershock, Matthew Green uses the form of creative nonfiction to ask questions about the body of story and memory that makes up the tale of veterans’ journey from the frontline of combat to the reality of return.

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