Chris Hamilton-Emery
Chris Hamilton-Emery was born in Manchester in 1963 and studied painting and printmaking in Leeds. He is a Director of Salt in Cambridge and London, England. His work has appeared in numerous journals including The Age, The Guardian, Jacket, Magma, Poetry London, Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, PN Review and The Rialto. A chapbook, The Cutting Room appeared form Barque in 2000. His first full-length poetry collection was Dr. Mephisto (Arc, 2002), his latest collection is Radio Nostalgia (Arc, 2006). He is also the author of a bestselling writer’s guide, 101 Ways to Make Poems Sell (Salt, 2006), an art and poetry anthology Poets in View (Salt, 2008) as well as selections of Emily Brontë, John Keats and Christina Rossetti. He was awarded an American Book Award in 2006 for his services to American literature. He lives in Great Wilbraham with his wife, three children and various other animals.
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Jen Hamilton-Emery
I spent the first 21 years of my life in Glasgow but left after one particularly wet summer. I headed south to Manchester and then into East Anglia where I’m doing my best to get used to the lack of scenery and freezing winter winds.
I am Salt’s fiction editor, but like everyone else here, have a finger in almost every pie. I’ve been with Salt since its start 10 years ago and I struggle to think of a better line of work: nothing quite beats the thrill of discovering a must-publish manuscript or being one of the first to see our new books, fresh from the printer’s.
Away from work, most of my time is spent with our fab kids. I’ve edited a book, Wild Berries Inside and Behind the Yard: An Anthology of Contemporary Botswana Poetry (Macmillan Botswana Publishing, 2008), I take photos, embark in various projects, most of which involve making a mess somewhere in the house, and dabble in bits of writing.
Things I especially like: winter morning light, Saturday morning cinema, the pudding part of Sunday dinner.
Charlotte Prince
I began as an intern at Salt earlier this year but am now here to stay!
My favourite bits of Salt are the authors and the books. There are lots of piles of things at the office: piles of sales to send, piles of stock to sell, piles of publicity to promote.
My job is to put the things in their right place but especially to put the books that the authors have written where people will see them and want them. It’s really good because I kind of work in an office made of books which I so love because books are my favourite thing.
When I’m not reading or working at Salt I do a Creative Writing MA. I will then do a Creative Writing Ph.D and then maybe after that I might do some writing. I also like cake and tea and the actor Trevor Eve.
Lee Smith
I’m a writer and a student. I live mostly in Cambridge but sometimes in Melbourne. My girlfriend lives in Melbourne. She is cool but far away.
I’ve been at Salt since February. I’m now working on technical stuff such as database and website maintenance…along with administering this blog and generally helping everyone get things done.
I think Salt is good. We publish great books that people should read. I particularly like The Solex Brothers by Luke Kennard.
I’m around twenty-five years old. Here is a list of things I like:
1. Tea
2. Writing
3. Beards
I have a website too: www.leesmithwriter.com
Sarah-Jayne Johnson
Howdy!
I began my journey by indulging in reading and writing at Anglia Ruskin University and started working for Salt at the end of July.
I deal with orders, publicity, sales and marketing.
I have an intimate relationship with my car and love to listen to HEART on my commute to the office.
I have a fascination with the colours orange red and yellow. I also love to visit the theatre.
My favourite Salt books of the moment are Nude by Nuala Ni Chonchuir and Lions In Winter by Wena Poon.
Gretel My
My name is Gretel and I’m currently splitting my time between the beautiful Salt Office, where I have my spindly fingers in all manner of project pies and try to bake new ones too, and Goldsmiths University where I am studying for my MFA in Art Writing- I’m essentially entirely consumed by the art world and seem to spend a lot of time on trains, during which I am an avid people watcher…..
I am fascinated by all manners of writing but have a special place in my sad little heart for the grotesque and the avant-garde, thus it makes perfect sense that upon joining the Salt Team I would immediately fall in love with the writing of Salt author Padrika Tarrant in her first book Broken Things.
I consider most things to be dirty and would like to slowly transform my double futon into a cocoon or a nest, lined with the pages of my favourite books and the spit of my loved ones. My life long dream, at this time, is to own a claw foot bathtub, to keep bees and to learn how to properly play my banjo ‘Delphine’. I am also very fond of rocking chairs, autumn, ribbons and museums.
