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, musician, and astrologer 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 Mask Magazine, which has now been translated into six languages. They are also the author of novel On Hell, which was one of Dennis Cooper's favorite books of 2018, and the nonfiction collection Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain.
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 leading figure in the avant-garde haiku movement of the 1930s. He began writing in his thirties as a practising dentist, and was imprisoned for his poetry in the Second World War. His collections are: Flags (1940), Night Peaches (1948), One Hundred Haiku (1948), Today (1952), and Transformations (1962). ‘Sanki’ is a nom de plume that means ‘Three Demons’.
