Introductions

Hello! Some of you will know me already, and some of you won’t. So I’m going to do a quick introduction here. I’m Will Buckingham. My background is in Fine Art (my undergraduate degree), anthropology (my masters’ degree) and philosophy (my PhD). But I’ve also taught creative writing for about twenty years, in universities, schools, hospitals, community settings, refugee camps… in fact, in all kinds of places.

You can find my website HERE. I’m also on Twitter, or X, or whatever we’re supposed to be calling it these days (see HERE), and on Mastodon (which is really nice), which you can find HERE.

I’m from the UK, but I’m currently based in Tainan, Taiwan. When not teaching at Parami, I spend my days writing (my last book was called HELLO, STRANGER: STORIES OF CONNECTION IN A DIVIDED WORLD, and was published in paperback by Granta in 2022), running writing-related projects through my social enterprise Wind&Bones, and trying to upgrade my Mandarin Chinese, and my Taiwanese language.

I was at Parami University at the very start, before it was a University, and worked in Myanmar on Parami’s founding faculty back in 2017, as well as in 2018-19 as a writer in residence along with my Wind&Bones compadre, Dr. Hannah Stevens.

That’s probably enough for an introduction. I look forward to meeting you all!