Philippa Holloway is a writer and academic from North Wales, currently teaching at Edge Hill University in Lancashire while undertaking doctoral research. Her short fiction has been published in literary journals in the USA, Australia, Europe and South Africa and shortlisted for writing awards in the UK, including the H.E. Bates Competition 2016 and the Waterstones/Sunderland Short Story Award 2016. Her creative non-fiction entry, Energy Crisis – A Memoir of Summer, was highly commended in the 2015 New Welsh Writing Awards (New Welsh Reader #108). Following this she was commissioned to curate a special feature for The New Welsh Reader (#111), entitled Power in the Land? based on collaborative research between herself, a group of local poets and the X10 Power in the Land art collaboration. She has recently begun travel writing after a research trip to Ukraine and the site of the Chernobyl disaster.