She used to work as a Co-director in the House of Literature, Gottlieben (2002 - 2009), a Lecturer in Community Development at University of Applied Sciences and arts of Central Switzerland(1995 - 2001), and Fundraising officer for two subsequent development agencies based in Switzerland.

　　She is a creative writing’s teacher, an essayist and a tour guide of literary tours in JerusalemHer works include three novels, two YA series, one novella and short stories which were translated to German, English, Spanish and Ukrainian.

　　Novelist, poet, essayist. His works include 5 poetry collections, along with the novels An Unfaithful World and The House of the Pain of Others. His work has garnered numerous prizes, including the Gilberto Owen Poetry Prize (2003) and the Juan José Arreola Short Story award, Jaen Prize for novels, Elena Poniatowska Prize for novels(2012).

　　Writer, publisher, teacher. She has published 2 books of tales and dozens of essays in different anthologies and culture magazines. She has won many prizes for her works, including Award Edmundo Valadés, State Council for the Culture of Puebla, Mexico(2014), Mention Casa de las Americas, Cuba(2014), Mentions at Iberoamericans Award Julio Cortázar, La Habana, Cuba (2013,2010, 2007), Finalist Review of Criticism Free Words, México (2013), Mention at Municipal Prize of Literature of Buenos Aires(2012), First Prize of American Short-Story Competition Avon, Buenos Aires(2006).....

　　 Nicolas Kurtovitch, born December 20, 1955 in Noumea, is a writer from New Caledonia. He has published several poetry collections, 3novels, 4 novellas, and 5 plays.

　　He worked as Public Relations Officer, University of Calicut, Advisor to the Minister for Culture, Govt of Kerala and Private Secretary to the Vice-Chancellor, University of Calicut. He has published 4 English poetry collections, 2 English prose books, 7 Malayalam poetry collections and 4 Malayalam prose books.

　　Novelist, playwright and journalist. In 1999, she graduates in Journalism with a major in screenplay, and during her university years she also starts her literary career. She has written 4 novels and more than a dozen theatrical texts. Her work —theatrical and narrative— has been included in numerous anthologies and reading lists in Spain and also in universities in the United States, Sweden, the Czech Republic, France, Mexico, Colombia, etc.

　　 Bulgarian writer, screenwriter, and translator. He is the author of one collection of short stories and one novel. His short stories have appeared in various literary magazines in Bulgaria and abroad. He worked as a screenwriter for Undercover– TV series, seasons 3 and 4 (2013-2015) and a screenwriter for Dennis and Friends– TV talk show ( 2013-2014).

　　A novelist, playwright and documentary film maker. Creedon’s published books include: Pancho and Lefty Ride Out (1995), Passion Play (1999), Second City Trilogy (2007). The Immortal Deed Of Michael O’Leary (2015). His work has been translated into German, Bulgarian and Italian.

　　Frode Z. Olsen was born in 1950 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a police officer, a writer of crime fiction and historical documentary. His writing is based on 40 years’experiences as a police officer investigating all types of crime. Rising through the ranks from uniformed constable to detective chief superintendent, and on to governmental advisor, Frode Z. Olsen’s work has taken him across Europe to the Balkans, and on to Irag, Afghanistan, Chad and China, where he served as a police attache from 2008-2013.

　　Zdravka Evtimova was born in Bulgaria in 1959 where she lives and works as literary translator from English, French and German. She has lived and worked a literary translator in Köln, Germany and in Brussels, Belgium. Her short stories have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in 30 countries in the world. The following of her books were published in English: Bitter Sky, short story collection, Somebody Else nominated for Pushcart Prize 2006, Miss Daniella, Good Figure Beautiful Voice, Pale and Other Postmodern Bulgarian Stories, and the novel God of Traitors.