SAMARA SCOTT lives and works in Dover. Solo exhibitions include Belt and Road, Tramway, Glasgow (2018), Silks, Eastside Projects, Birmingham (2015), and Poems, Almanac Projects, London (2013). Recent group exhibitions include Day Tripper, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea (2019), and The Happy Fact: A Popular Mechanics of Feelings, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2019).
Forthcoming projects in 2020 include a solo show at CAPC, Bordeaux, and a book with Loose Joints.
ELVIA WILK is a writer and editor living in New York. Her writing has appeared in publications such as frieze, Artforum, Bookforum, Granta, n+1, BOMB, Mousse, Flash Art and art-agenda, and she is currently an editor at e-flux Journal. Her first novel, Oval, was published by Soft Skull in 2019. She is the recipient of an Andy Warhol Arts Writers Grant and a 2020 fellow at the Berggruen Institute.
Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and
musician who was raised in Los Angeles by a family of witches, and now lives in
LA and Berlin. Hedva is the author of the essay ‘Sick Woman Theory’, originally
published in 2016, which has now been translated into ten languages. Hedva is
also the author of the novel On Hell, which was one of Dennis Cooper’s
favourite books of 2018, and the nonfiction collection Minerva
the Miscarriage of the Brain. Their albums are The Sun and the Moon
and Black Moon Lilith in Pisces in the 4th House.
Born in Veracruz, Mexico, in 1982, Fernanda Melchor is widely recognized as one of the most exciting new voices of Mexican literature. In 2018, she won the PEN Mexico Award for Literary and Journalistic Excellence and in 2019 the German Anna-Seghers-Preis and the International Literature Award for Hurricane Season.
SABINA URRACA is a writer and journalist. Born in the Basque Country, she spent her childhood in Tenerife and has lived in Madrid for over a decade. She is the author of the novel Prodigal Daughters (Las niñas prodigio), published by Fulgencio Pimentel in 2018. Sabina Urraca writes regularly for Vice Spain and El País, and is widely hailed today as an exciting new voice in Spanish letters. She is currently writing her second book.
HSU YU-CHEN was born in 1977 in Taiwan. He has published the story collection Purple Blooms (Ink, 2008) as well as short stories and book and film reviews in journals such as Ink Literary Monthly and UNITAS A Literary Monthly. His short stories have won Best Story in the United Daily News Literary Awards (2008), and First Prize at the New Taipei City Literature Awards (2010).
DOUGLAS HERASYMUIK is a healthcare worker, community activist and emerging Canadian poet who writes about social justice, freedom and beautiful sadness. This is his first published work.
ZOSIA KUCZYŃSKA is the author of Pisanki (The Emma Press, 2017). Her work has been published in The Tangerine and is forthcoming in Poetry Ireland Review. In 2019, she was shortlisted for the Mairtín Crawford Award for Poetry and highly commended in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award. She is currently an IRC postdoctoral research fellow at University College Dublin.
Sanki Saitō (1900-1962) was a Japanese poet and short story writer, most famous for his modern haiku, which he began writing in his thirties while practicing dentistry, and for which he was briefly imprisoned during the Second World War. He published four collections in his lifetime—Flags (1940), Night Peaches (1948), Today (1952), and Transformations (1962). “Sanki” is a nom de plume that means “Three Demons.”
Ryan C. K. Choi is an award-winning composer and musician, writer, and literary translator, whose work has appeared in BOMB, Harper’s, Tin House, The White Review, The Yale Review and elsewhere. His translations have included the works of Jun Tsuji, Shinkichi Takahashi, Sanki Saitō, and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
