Fish short story and memoir competitions. Her story, ‘The Glorious Dolores’, was performed in March 2013 by Liars’ League in London. Essays are online at Thresholds and stories at Cigale Literary Magazine, The Medulla Review, Female First, The Yellow Room, Liars’ League, Literary Mama, Barehands Poetry, Vine Leaves Journal and The Lampeter Review. Further information can be found at http://www.amandaoosthuizen.com Amber Lee Dodd Amber Lee Dodd studied writing and performance at the University of East Anglia. After graduating she was part funded by the university to showcase new writing at the Edinburgh Fringe. She returned to the Edinburgh Fringe the next year with her work being performed in the sell out show Body Gossip. Her writing has been selected and shortlisted for national competitions and readings in literary events. Recently she was the lead writer on a show produced by the New Theatre Royal and a playwright for the young playwrights programme at Chichester Festival Theatre. Her fiction is published in the short story collection ‘Bookfest 2012: Writers to Watch’ and showcased with Litro Magazine, RiverLit and Cleaver Magazine. Ammu Venugopal Ammu Venugopal is 19 year old, from Kochi, Kerala, currently pursuing her 2nd year of UG course in the Symbiosis Institute of Media and Communication, Pune. She is a Mass Communication student, planning to specialise in Audio-Visual Production in the final year. She has wide-ranging interests that includes dance, music, theatre, photography, cinematography and filmmaking. She has acted in a couple of malayalam feature films and has had her hands also at anchoring various shows in a popular television channel of South India for two years. In spite of her busy schedules in her degree course, she finds time in capturing eye-catching visuals. This includes working as the official photographer for the major events that have been organized in and out of the college in Pune. As part of her curriculum, she is presently on to her debut attempt at making a short film on society issues. Andrew J Keir Andrew J Keir was born in Glasgow. After University, he spent ten years in a number of jobs at various locations in Scotland and England. In 2001 he moved to Fujairah in the UAE and, whilst living there, decided to take his writing more seriously. Andrew did well in a couple of short story competitions and won a place on the University of Lancaster’s prestigious MA in Creative Writing. His first novel, Bloody Flies, is the direct result of his time at Lancaster. Andrew is currently working on an historical novel about the life of Cinaed mac Alpin (Arguably the first King of Scotland) and a PhD in Creative Writing with Edinburgh Napier University. A picture book for children, Colin Colour Fingers, is also in the pipeline. He divides his time between his homes in Abu Dhabi and Scotland, where he lives with his family. Andy Hedgecock Andy Hedgecock has been involved in small press publishing for more than a quarter of a century. He is co-editor (Fiction) of Interzone, one of the UK ’s 351
LIJLA Vol.1, No.2 August 2013