Juliana Delgado Lopera is an award-winning Colombian writer, historian, speaker and storyteller based in San Francisco. Her debut novel Fiebre Tropical, which won the 2014 Jackson Literary Award, will be out Spring 2020 from The Feminist Press.
Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. She is the winner of The White Review Short Story Prize 2019.
Khairani Barokka (b. Jakarta, 1985) is a writer, poet and artist in London. Among her honours, she was an NYU Tisch Departmental Fellow for her masters, Emerging Writers Festival’s (AUS) Inaugural International Writer-In-Residence (2013), and Indonesia’s first Writer-In-Residence at Vermont Studio Center (2011). From March 2019, she is Modern Poetry in Translation’s inaugural Poet-in-Residence.
Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writer, and psychoanalyst. She is the author of the poetry collections Fourth Person Singular (2017), shortlisted for the 2017 Forward Prize for Best Collection in England and Ireland; and More Shadow Than Bird (Salt Publishing, 2012). Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Grand Street, the Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, tender, Magma, Poetry London, and the Poetry Review. Alsadir is on the faculty at New York University, and she works as a psychotherapist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York.
Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals and Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, among other works.
VICTORIA ADUKWEI BULLEY is a poet,
writer and filmmaker. She is the recipient of an
Eric Gregory Award, and has held artistic residencies
internationally in the US, Brazil and at the
V&A Museum in London. A Complete Works
and Instituto Sacatar fellow, her pamphlet Girl B
(Akashic) forms part of the 2017 New-Generation
African Poets series. She is a doctoral student at
Royal Holloway, University of London, where she
is the recipient of a Technē studentship for doctoral
research in Creative Writing.
Sophie Collins grew up in Bergen, North Holland, and now lives in Edinburgh. She is the author of the poetry collection Who Is Mary Sue? (Faber & Faber, 2018) and small white monkeys (Book Works, 2017), a text on self-expression, self-help, and shame.
Tessa Hadley is the author of six highly praised novels including Accidents in the Home, which was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award, Everything Will Be All Right, The Master Bedroom, The London Train, Clever Girl and The Past. She is also the author of two highly acclaimed collections of short stories, Sunstroke and Married Love. She teaches literature and creative writing at Bath Spa University. Her stories appear regularly in The New Yorker, Granta and other magazines.
Parul Sehgal is a book critic at The New York Times. She was previously a columnist and senior editor at The New York Times Book Review. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, Bookforum, The New Yorker, Tin House, and The Literary Review, among other publications, and she was awarded the Nona Balakian Award from the National Book Critics Circle for her criticism. She has been a featured speaker at TED and teaches at Columbia University and the Center for the Humanities at CUNY.
Elad Lassry is an Israeli-American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He creates or rediscovers images from a vast array of sources, redeploying them in a variety of media, including photography, film, drawing and sculpture. Despite the diversity of his approach, Lassry has developed one of the most distinctive visual idioms in contemporary art and a rigorously focussed practice that investigates the nature of our perception and the meaning of the contemporary image.
