MFA
Creative Writing and Publishing

Born and raised in the South East of England, Amy Lilwall was awarded her MA entitled “The Contemporary Novel: Practice as Research” by the University of Kent in 2012. In 2018, she was awarded her PhD in the same subject by the same institution. Her thesis novel, The Biggerers, was published by Point Blank in 2017; the paperback was released in 2019. Amy writes dystopian realist novels as she particularly enjoys the juxtaposition of fantasy and the mundane. Amy has completed five subsequent manuscripts, which are currently with her agent. Amy has written for Lithub, Writing in Education, peer-reviewed journals Short Fiction in Theory and Practice, New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, TEXT, Axon, and The Quint. She has had short stories published in The Lit and by Fairlight Books. Amy was a lead contributor to On the Hill, a podcast about the history of Falmouth cemetery. Currently, Amy is the co-producer of On Silence literary podcast produced in collaboration with postgraduate students at the University of Lincoln. She is also a guest editor for The Lit literary journal published by The Literary Platform. Prior to teaching at Lincoln, Amy was a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Falmouth University. Amy is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Co-Director of the MFA Creative Writing and Publishing at the University of Lincoln. 

Daniele Pantano is a Swiss poet, essayist, literary translator, and artist. He has published over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, translations, and conceptual literature, and his work has been translated into a dozen languages and featured in various international journals and magazines, including Asymptote, The Baltimore Review, Conjunctions, Evergreen Review, Four Way Review, Guernica, Harper’s Magazine, International Literary Review, International Poetry, Jacket, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Mailer Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, Plume, Poetry Daily, Poetry International, Poetry London, Style, Verse Daily, 3:AM Magazine, and 32 Poems. Some of his most recent books include The Damned: Selected Poems of Georg Trakl (Broken Sleep Books, 2023), Home for Difficult Children: A Memoir in Verse (Black Lawrence Press, 2022), Robert Walser: The Poems (Seagull Books, 2022), Chiens dans des champs en friche: Selected Poems by Daniele Pantano (Editions d’en bas, 2020), ORAKL (Black Lawrence Press, 2017), and Robert Walser: Fairy Tales (New Directions, 2015). Pantano taught at the University of South Florida (where he was also Director of the Writing Center), served as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Florida Southern College, and directed the Creative Writing programme at Edge Hill University, where he was Reader in Poetry and Literary Translation. He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) in Creative Writing, Programme Leader for the MA Creative Writing, and Co-Director of the MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing at the University of Lincoln.

For the last thirty years, Associate Professor in Creative Writing Chris Dows has combined his career as a professional author with teaching creative writing at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Starting as a comic book writer, for fifteen years he worked on everything from gothic horror through to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and The Jackie Chan Adventures. His regular “Treknology” column has appeared in The Official Star Trek Magazine for over twenty years, and he has also authored the YA fantasy novel Panthea and the WWII drama Lokomotive. Chris recently worked for Games Workshop’s Black Library Press, writing over a dozen short stories, the novel Kharn: The Red Path, and enjoyed great success in the audio drama format, including the trilogy Scions of Elysia, Renegades of Elysia, Martyrs of Elysia, the critically-acclaimed Titans’ Bane, and the three-part action-adventure Augur of Despair. His most recent short fiction work can be found in his collection Cherry Blossom Headshot and within the relaunched Star Trek: Explorer magazine.

Robert Paul Weston’s fiction has been heard on The New Yorker Radio Hour and appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Normal School, The New Orleans Review, The Raleigh Review, Litro, Postscripts, and others. He is also the author of several award-winning novels for children and young adults, including Zorgamazoo (Penguin/Razorbill, 2008), Dust City (Penguin/Razorbill, 2010), and Blues for Zoey (Flux, 2015). His books have been translated into Chinese, French, German, Portuguese, and Turkish, and won prizes around the world, including the California Young Reader Medal, the Silver Birch Award, the Children’s Choice Award, and an Edgar Allan Poe Honour for Best Young Adult Mystery. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln, where he is Faculty Fiction Editor of The Lincoln Review.

Sherezade García Rangel is a writer, researcher, and podcaster who teaches Creative Writing at Lincoln. She is the award-winning founder, producer, and host of On The Hill podcast, producer of Everyday Peacebuilding through the Arts (MAP Podcast) and co-producer of On Silence (The Lincoln Review). As a Research Fellow at the Wiley Digital Archives (Royal Geographic Society) she studied representations of Venezuela in colonial records. Her work has appeared in Transnational Literature’s “New Voices: Ones to Watch,” Multimodal and Digital Creative Writing Pedagogies, Writing in Practice, Lighting Birds (Stellaria Media), Gutter Magazine, From Glasgow to Saturn, and others. Her novel, The Wounded Me, will be published by Blackwater Press in 2025. Her interests include dark economies, archival research, narrative podcasting, international literary fiction, magical realism, and unusual creative non-fiction.