Senior Lecturer Hugh Dunkerley’s poetry collection, Hare, will be published by Cinnamon Press in 2010. He has also published two pamphlet collections of poetry, Walking to the Fire Tower (Redbeck Press) and Fast (Pighog Press). He also writes scholarly articles on contemporary poetry, and has a strong interest in ecocriticism and representations of the natural world in literature. He is Vice-Chair of the UK section of The Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment, and, in 2004, led ASLE’s biennial conference at Chichester. The conference, entitled ‘Cross-Fertilisations: Literature, Science and Nature’, attracted delegates from the UK, Europe, the US, Australia, New Zealand and China. Various papers from the conference were subsequently published in an Earthographies: Ecocriticism and Culture (New Formations), which he co-edited with Wendy Wheeler of London Metropolitan University. Hugh is also West Sussex Poet Laureate.

Emerita Professor Vicki Feaver is one of Britain's leading poets. She has written three  collections of poetry: Close Relatives (Secker, 1981), The Handless Maiden (Cape, 1994) and The Book of Blood (Cape 2006), which was shortlisted for the prestigious Forward Prize and the Costa Prize. She has read and taught at festivals all over the world. Her work is represented in many anthologies of contemporary poetry, and a selection is included in the Penguin Modern Poets series. She has also published essays on the process of writing and on twentieth-century women poets.

Dr Alison MacLeod’s first novel, The Changeling was published by Macmillan (UK) and St Martin’s Press (US) in 1996. It comprised part of her dissertation for her PhD in Creative Writing, which she was awarded in 1996 by the University of Lancaster. In the same year, she won a Canada Council Writer’s award for The Changeling. In 1998, she accepted the offer of a writing residency at the prestigious Banff Centre for the Arts in the Canadian Rockies and, in 1999, and was awarded a Writer’s Award from the Arts Council of England for her novel-in-progress. She published her second novel, The Wave Theory of Angels with Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. Her short fiction collection, Fifteen Modern Tales of Attraction, was also published by Penguin, in October 2007. A third novel has also been commissioned by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin. Her short fiction has been published in a variety of magazines and collections, including The London Magazine, Short Circuits (Virago), Pulp and Prospect. Alison has published various essays on cultural and literary themes both here and in Canada.

Associate Lecturer Stephen Mollett’s eight radio plays broadcast on Radio 4 include: The Joke, A House Halfway to Africa (about Van Gogh), The Visitors’ Book,  A White Velvet Nightcap in Florida (concerning Hungarian writer Tibor Dery) and Leo Adrift. His plays have featured in Radio 4’s ‘Pick of the Week’ and have been favourably reviewed in The Guardian, The Independent and The Observer. He also writes for television and two of his episodes of the drama series Doctors were broadcast on BBC1. His stage play for young people, In a Strange City, toured as part of the Oxford Stage Company’s ‘Making the Future’ season. He has written an audio tour, commissioned by the Tate, about twelve places in St Ives connected with artist Ben Nicholson. Stephen won second prize in the Lloyds Bank Screenwriting competition for In Care of Strangers and was selected by Carlton TV for their workshop scheme where he was funded to write a pilot for a TV series. He is represented by Jill Foster Ltd.   

Stephanie Norgate, the MA in Creative Writing Programme Co-ordinator, is a poet and playwright. Her stage plays have been performed and read on the Edinburgh and London Fringe. Her radio play, The Greatest Gift, won a Radio Times Drama Award; her dramatised series, The Journalistic Adventures, was previewed favourably in The Times, Guardian and Daily Mail. Her short collection of poetry, Fireclay won a Poetry Business Pamphlet Award and was well reviewed in, for instance, The Independent. A generous selection of her poems appeared in Oxford Poets 2000 (Carcanet), which was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Her full collection, Hidden River, was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection Prize and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection prize. In addition, Hidden River was praised by reviewers in The Guardian and The TLS. Stephanie has recently recorded a CD of poetry readings for The Poetry Archive, and her work will be featured on the Archive’s website from late Spring 2009.  At Chichester, she has successfully supervised the PhD theses of Dr. Sue Evans and Dr. Mara Giemza.

Associate Lecturer Jane Rusbridge gained a Distinction for her MA in Creative Writing and has taught in the English department for nine years. She has worked across a range of literary-critical modules, but her particular teaching interest is Creative Writing. Jane’s novel, The Devil’s Music, the first of a two-book deal with Bloomsbury (London), will be published in 2009. Her short stories have appeared in Mslexia and in the anthologies of the Bridport Prize and the Fish Short Story Prize, among others.  She is represented by Hannah Westland of Rogers, Coleridge and White, London.

Senior Lecturer Karen Stevens’ short stories have been published in The Big Issue, Pulp Net, Londonart.co.uk on-line gallery, The Chichester Observer Magazine, and the anthologies Water Babies (Panurge New Fiction, Mouth Ogres (Oxmarket Press), Spoonface and Other Stories (Fish Publishing, Dreaming Beasts (Krebs and Snopes). She is currently writing her first novel, which as a work-in-progress was shortlisted for the highly competitive, Arts-Council-funded ‘Adventures in Fiction Apprenticeships’ in 2007. As Chair of the Department’s annual Publishing Panel Event, she is involved in developing external networks and relationships with literary agents and editors from leading agencies and publishing houses. She has also worked in collaboration with THE SOUTH, a literature development organisation, on the ‘Brighton Children’s Book Festival’ in July 2009.  She has a particular interest in contemporary fiction and fiction for children.

Senior Lecturer David Swann is the author of a short story collection, The Last Days of Johnny North (Elastic Press, 2006) and the forthcoming collection of poetry and prose, The Privilege of Rain (Waterloo Press, 2009). The latter book is based on his experiences while working as the writer-in-residence at HMP Nottingham Prison, where he edited a collection of work by prisoners, 'Beyond the Wall' (HMP Nottingham, 1999). He runs the touring literary cabaret, Tongues & Strings, with the poet Hugh Dunkerley. Together, they have edited two collections of work produced by Tongues & Strings performers, Mouth Ogres (Oxmarket Press, 2001) and Dreaming Beasts (Krebs & Snopes, 2005), the latter supported by a grant of £3,000 from the Arts Council of England. Dave's poems and short stories have been widely published in the UK, Holland, South Africa, America, and Japan.  His work has also won awards in the Bridport Prize (five times), The National Poetry Competition, I.C.A. New Blood, the Forward Prize, Northern Stories (four times), and many others.