A note on contributors

Please note the list below only includes contributors who have a profile. In many cases there is not enough information available about a contributor to put together a profile. If you are already a contributor and a profile for you doesn't appear here, please email your details to:

sa4qemail [at] gmail [dot] com

Full list of contributors

Diana Slickman - profile

SA4QE founder and Neo-Futurist writer/director/performer, Chicago, USA

Ben Hennessy - profile

Artistic director, Red Kettle Theatre Company, Waterford, Ireland

Director of the 2007 stage production of Riddley Walker from Russell Hoban's own script

More details at www.thoughtcat.com/riddleydvd.htm

Olaf Schneider - profile

Chief executive, AMMMa AG, Bielefeld, Germany

Creator of Flash animations inspired by Russell Hoban's works

See all of Olaf's animations: on this site / on YouTube

Lara Hoffenberg - profile

Long-time fan of Russell Hoban's world; completed a masters dissertation on his work in 1995. Now working at the University of Cape Town in the International Office.

Jane Hyde - profile

Librarian, Arden, North Carolina, USA

Tim Haillay - profile

Cataloguing supervisor, University of Sussex library, Brighton, UK

Lisa Greenstein - profile

Writer of mathematics textbooks and other things, builder of clay things, long-distance swimmer and occasional performer, Cape Town, South Africa

Report on the 2005 Russell Hoban convention

Paul Saich - profile

Ex-cosmologist, satellite scientist, geographer in central London, now a maths teacher, Chelmsford, UK

Roland Clare - profile

English teacher, Bristol, UK

Roland took part in a talk given by Russell Hoban to a group of sixth-form students in May 2001; an excellent set of all-action photos from the day are hosted on Flickr. He has also used Russell Hoban's novels and stories extensively in his own sixth-form English classes, inspiring several students to participate in SA4QE 2004, namely Louis Arron, Thom Shaw, Yusra Khan, Dylan Spicer, Mike Warren and Nick Shearer, and in 2008 Georgia Murley, Amanda Moorghen, Jessica Bishop Bunn, Caroline Cook, Charlotte Amor, Chloe Quinn, Rosie Harrold, James Fowler, Kieran Boden, Daniel Potter and Thomas Lipscomb.

Roland Clare (left) with Helen Eve and Russell Hoban, 15th May 2001

See all photos from the day

Kerry Power - profile

General Manager, Health Care, Transport Accident Commission, Melbourne, Australia

Val Bucknall - profile

Psychotherapist and writer, Bromley, Kent

www.valbucknall.co.uk

Sophia Fabre - profile

franco-scottish gardener, rambler, horse-rider, reader, Riddley Walker Fanatick, and blue stocking (*s*), Alps, France

Hugh Bowden - profile

Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History, King's College London

Michael A. Piper - profile

Stay-at-home dad and unemployed librarian, Speedway, Indiana, USA

Linda Whitebread - profile

Administrator, University of (C)ambridge, UK

Deena Omar - profile

Some-Poasyum quiz winner, London

Graeme Wend-Walker - profile

Research postgraduate, Sydney, Australia

Bristol English students

Roland Clare has used Russell Hoban's novels and stories extensively in his own sixth-form English classes at Bristol Grammar School, inspiring several students to participate in SA4QE 2004, namely Louis Arron, Thom Shaw, Yusra Khan, Dylan Spicer, Mike Warren and Nick Shearer; in 2008 Georgia Murley, Amanda Moorghen, Jessica Bishop Bunn, Caroline Cook, Charlotte Amor, Chloe Quinn, Rosie Harrold, James Fowler, Kieran Boden, Daniel Potter and Thomas Lipscomb; and in 2009 Rowan Evans.

Eli Bishop - profile

Software engineer, comic-book writer, sometime nurse, San Francisco (not Chicago).

Compiler of the Riddley Walker Annotations website: www.graphesthesia.com/rw