Ankush Saikia was born in Assam state, India, in 1975. He has worked in journalism and publishing in New Delhi for over a decade and was shortlisted for the Outlook–Picador India non-fiction writing award (2005).

　　He was born 1963 in Östersund, a town in northern Sweden. He started writing early, and his first novel was published when he was twenty. By then he also started writing for the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter, where he has been a columnist for nearly thirty years.

　　Dimitris Sotakis was born in Athens in 1973. He has published nine novels and a collection of short stories. His books have been nominated for many literary prizes in Greece, and in 2009 he was awarded the Athens Prize for Literature for his novel The Miracle of Breathing.

　　Ersi Sotiropoulos is the author of fifteen books of fiction and poetry. Her work has been translated into many languages, and has been awarded in Greece with the National Book Prize twice, the Book Critics’ Award and the Athens Academy Prize, and has been shortlisted for the European Book Prize. She has written scripts for film and television and participated in exhibitions of Visual Poetry......

　Éva Péterfy-Novák was born 1961 in Diósgyőr, Hungary. Her novel A Woman, published in 2014, was a great success and was sold in more than 20 000 exemplars. The drama with the same title written from the novel got the prize “The Best Drama of the Year” in Hungary in 2016. Her second book, The Pink Costume (2017) contains short stories. Her third novel will be published in 2019.

　　Frances edmond is a writer and reviewer who works across disciplines in film, theatre and literature. Frances is working on a companion piece to Night Burns with a White Fire: The essential Lauris Edmond which explores the origins, sources and inspiration of her mother’s writing. Her most recent projects...

　　 She has written fiction, essays, poetry and reviews. Her novels are Cusp (UWAP 2005) and Extinctions (UWAP 2016). Extinctions won the inaugural Dorothy Hewitt Award in manuscript, the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Colin Roderick Award. Extinctions was nominated for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Award. It is forthcoming with Serpent’s Tail (UK) and Tin House (USA).

　　Katerina Mouriki is the author of 85 books for children aged from 6 to 16 years old. Most of her books are fiction stories. Her books have earned many awards, like the first prize of the Greek Section of IBBY. Gasmen, the fugitive with the pipe was honored by the Greek Society of Christian Literature and Love without borders was also honored by the Greek Section of I.B.B.Y.

　Novelist and journalist. She published her first collection of short stories, Flickering Light, in 2001. This was followed by four novels and two collections of short stories, “Maryam's Maze” in 2004, “Beyond Paradise” in 2009, “The Path to Madness” in 2013, “Emerald Mountain” in 2014, “Shadow Specters” in 2017 and “The haven of absence” in 2018.

　　Up to now, he has published more than 30 books – novels, short stories, essays as well as poems. He writes articles for newspapers and magazines, stimulates debates in the media, and gives lectures, nationally and internationally. He has travelled more than 100 countries, some of them repeatedly or for months.

　　Mirandi Riwoe is an Australian writer. Her novella The Fish Girl won Seizure’s Viva la Novella V and was shortlisted for The Stella Prize. Her debut novel, She be Damned, was released in 2017 and will be followed by A Necessary Murder this year. She is Peril Magazine’s prose editor and her work has appeared in Best Australian Stories, Review of Australian Fiction, Rex, Peril and Shibboleth...

　　Tetiana Mykolayivna is a novelist, short-story writer, journalist, translator. Her first book published was a collection of poetry “Native Shores” (2006), which included award-winning works of the previous years. In 2007 she got the first prize “For the best interview of the year” and later was called “The youth Leader of the Year – 2007”, nomination “Journalist”, Kharkov city.