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Fraser Mann is Senior Lecturer in Literature at York St. John University. He is a specialist in American writing with particular interests in conflict, testimony, and trauma. He has published research on a range of literary figures such as Ernest Hemingway, James Jones and Norman Mailer. He also works on music writing in the form of creative non-fiction and recently co-edited the Bloomsbury edited collection Music, Memory and Memoir. His creative writing can be found on the Twistin’ My Memory, Man blogspace. His teaching interests include American Studies, autobiography and twentieth- and twenty-first-century war writing.

Helen Pleasance is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John University. She has written on the Moors murders, the spectral form of memoir and music memoirs. She is currently working on a hybrid family memoir about the women in her family and needlework.

Robert Edgar is Professor of Writing and Popular Culture in the York Centre for Writing based in the School of Humanities at York St John University, UK. He has published Screenwriting (Bloomsbury, 2009), Directing Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2009), The Language of Film (Bloomsbury, 2010 and 2015), The Music Documentary (Routledge, 2013), The Arena Concert (Bloomsbury, 2015), Music, Memory and Memoir (Bloomsbury, 2019), Adaptation for Scriptwriters (Bloomsbury, 2019), and Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition (2023). He is co-editing the Routledge Companion to Folk Horror (2023) and Horrifying Children: Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fiction (Bloomsbury, 2024).