Gina Wisker is Head of Learning and Teaching and Professor of Higher Education and Contemporary Literature, University of Brighton, UK. She teaches MA and BA in literature and supervises postgraduate students. Gina is an Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning development consultant. She has lived in Singapore, Cyprus and Malta and now runs workshops worldwide – in the Far East, Australasia, the USA, Sweden and South Africa – particularly on supervising postgraduates and writing for academic publication. She is the author of a number of books, chapters and articles including Getting Published, The Good Supervisor, Postgraduate Research Handbook and Horror Fiction. She also writes and publishes poetry and short stories, and is co-editor of SEDA journal Innovations in Education and Teaching International, online horror journal Dissections and poetry e-zine Spokes. Gina peer reviews for several literature and higher education journals andis on the advisory board for FEMSPEC and the Atlantic Literary Review. She lives in Cambridge with her two sons and small dog.