2023 In The Flesh Authors

Felicia Sabartinelli

Felicia Sabartinelli is a poet, playwright, and essayist. She has been published in major magazines, newspapers, anthologies, and recently won a Writer’s Digest award. Felicia is also an actor, artist, public speaker, and Marketing Director.

Learn more about her at: http://www.FeliciaSabartinelli.com

Ashleigh Symms

Ashleigh is a Mancunian living in Scotland. Her writing focuses on relationships and encapsulating what it means to be human by presenting the connections we make in their rawest and most veracious forms.

Marzia Eneide

Marzia Eneide is an avid reader and writer who enjoys immersing herself in fantasy worlds and exploring real life issues through fiction. She is currently taking part in a creative writing MLitt at Stirling University.

Samantha Nimmo

Samantha Nimmo is a Scottish student, writer, and mother. She writes feminist fiction and fantasy that always ends up a little dark and twisted. Since she was a child, all she’s wanted to do is read and write and she doesn’t foresee that changing any time soon.

Joe Hoeffner

Joe Hoeffner is a freelance writer and critic born in Long Island, New York, and studying in Scotland. Be reassured: he has a genuinely good relationship with his mother.

Christina Schrage

Christina Schrage writes crime and thriller pieces. Occasionally she dabbles in poetry to tackle writer’s block. In 2022, Christina moved from Wichita, Kansas to pursue a MLitt at the University of Stirling, turning a hobby into a craft.

Sheila Munro

Sheila Munro loves playing with words and ideas. She writes contemporary fiction and dabbles in memoir and non-fiction. She’s thrilled to be working towards an MLitt in Creative Writing and is overjoyed to be finally writing the novel that’s been inside her head for longer than she’d care to admit. She lives in Bridge of Allan and would like to have more time.

Francesca Parsons

Francesca Parsons graduated from the University of Stirling in 2022 with a degree in English Studies. She now studies creative writing and spends most of her time writing about lonely people searching for a hand to hold.

Kamie Wootan

Kamie Wootan is a fiction writer and poet from Bozeman, Montana. She has a bachelor’s in Art: English Education from Montana State University and is currently working on an MLITT in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. When Kamie isn’t writing, she is reading, playing a video game, hanging out with her amazing son, or working on her latest hobby.

Megan Quijada

Originally from California, Megan Quijada writes about everything from broken hearts to shattered skulls, and how the former often leads to the latter. She has a bachelor’s in English Literature and is working on her MLitt in Creative Writing 5,105 miles from home at the University of Stirling. Though she is the first of her family to travel out of the country for generations, she is petrified of plane, train, or automobile accidents. She thinks of what-ifs for stories and novels instead of focusing on the what-ifs of life.

Katie Wilson

Katie Wilson is an aspiring young author, currently studying Creative Writing at Masters Level at The University of Stirling. She has been writing a collection of modern Scottish Folk Tails throughout her time as both an Undergrad and Masters student.

Born and raised in the Highlands, Katie’s writing reflects her deep love for the environment and a passion to preserve Scotland’s wild places. Her stories reflect upon the land and the people who truly make Scotland magical.

At twenty-three years old, she has been living in Stirling for four years, with friends, and enjoying the rich history of the famous Scottish city.

Nicki Wilkins

Nicki Wilkins finds inspiration in her local landscape, writing and making art about nature, myth, and the body. She studied English and Art History at Indiana University and has a MDiv from Yale. She home educates her children and lives in Fife.