Mark Buckland is the founder of Cargo Publishing. He also teaches publishing at the University of Edinburgh and is the literary editor of Nicedefine.com, a site to demonstrate the best art in Glasgow. He writes and campaigns on mental-health issues and is a two-time winner of the Keith Wright Creative Writing prize. This all makes him sound far more interesting than he actually is.

Gill Tasker is Head of Submissions, Editor, and First Mate to the Cargo Captain. Having had her fingers in a fair few publishing pies over the years (including interning in NYC, writing about banging beats for magazines, and being published twice in Taiwan), she holds a BA (Hons) from the University of Strathclyde, and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh. Unable to stay away from the hallowed halls of the University of Strathclyde’s English Studies department, she has recently embarked upon a doctoral degree, researching the life and writing of Alexander Trocchi.

Anneliese Mackintosh is the head of Cargo Crate. Her work has been published in various literary magazines and anthologies, as well as broadcast on BBC Radio 4. She regularly performs her work around Scotland and is currently finishing a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow. She co-founded the multimedia arts event Words Per Minute.

Rodge Glass is a novelist and biographer who works part time at Strathclyde University.

David Flood is an editor and submissions officer for Cargo. Having already worked on The Year of Open Doors, he is eager to push on with more publishing work as he dislikes not being able to talk openly about any great (or atrocious) stories he comes across at Cargo. He is currently studying for an MSc at the University of Glasgow. He also writes, is in a different band every week and performs stand up comedy.

Current student of the University of Strathclyde, Craig has performed around Glasgow at spoken word events such as Words Per Minute and read at the Aye Write book festival in 2010. In 2009, he came 3rd in the Glasgow Student Short Story Prize, judged by A.L.Kennedy. He was recently awarded a Keith Wright Memorial Prize for a short story.

Martin is Cargo’s Press Officer. Having graduated from the University of Strathclyde with first class honours in English and Journalism & Creative Writing, he has spent much of his time since then reading, playing guitar and drinking copious amounts of coffee. He also writes short stories, bits of journalism here and there and the odd poem. He says hello.

Graduate and all-round man about town, Cameron has organised Cargo events for the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Wigtown Book Festival, The List Magazine 25th Birthday party and our own Margins Book & Music Festival.

Lewis Irvine is currently finishing off his studies in Metaphysics at the University of Glasgow. His interests (in publishing) lie in binding, poetry and experimental (in the sense of unusual) writing. He also studies Fine Bookbinding in Glasgow and likes puns rather too much.

Born and raised in Brae, a village in the Shetland Isles which as of 2010 is also home to the country’s most northerly high school, chip shop and cash machine. She moved to Glasgow in 2006 to attend Strathclyde University, from which she gained a BA (Hons) in English with Journalism and Creative Writing.

Kirsteen is a Strathclyde University graduate and is also currently working to restore an archive on the Isle of Bute.

Sam is currently a student and is assisting with copy-editing and other duties. He has read his own work at the Aye Write! Festival and writes for the Strathclyde Telegraph

Lucy assists in various areas of Cargo when she’s not studying or helping to run superb Glasgow clothing shop Ruby Tuesday’s.

Stephanie Gilmartin assists in various areas and also an editorial assistant at Cargo.