Roxane Gay was born in Omaha, USA to Haitian parents in 1974. She completed a master’s degree with a focus on creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and a doctorate in Rhetoric and Technical Communication at Michigan Technological University. Since then, she has taught at various universities; most recently,
Rumena Bužarovska, born in 1981 in Skopje, Northern Macedonia, is a writer, literary scholar and translator. Among the authors she has translated into Macedonian are Lewis Carroll, J. M. Coetzee, Truman Capote, and Charles Bukowski. She teaches American literature at the State University of Skopje. In addition to a study
born in 1938, is a former diplomat, development banker, and capital market development consultant. In 1958, he was stationed as an army officer in Hong Kong. He later served twice in the British Embassy in Beijing. He is the author of two books on China.
is Professor of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. Previously, he taught English and American Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has published four books on African American culture, race studies, and sexuality studies and has received numerous grants for
Rébecca Dautremer was born in 1971 in Gap in the French Alps. She studied graphic design at the École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD) in Paris, during which time she was working as an illustrator for various publishers. She primarily works with gouache on watercolor paper. Taking inspiration from
Rasmus Bregnhøi was born in Langerød (Fredensborg) in 1965. He studied at Danmarks Designskole in Copenhagen. Since graduating in 1992, he has worked as a painter, author, and illustrator and has written and/or illustrated over a hundred children’s books. He became known in Germany through the comic series »Mira«, for
born in 1975, is a freelance journalist, writer, podcaster, and co-founder of One Way Space Beijing, a bookstore with an attached culture-centre and online-media company. She has more than two decades of experience in print and internet media, and previously worked as political analyst for the International Crisis Group and
is a Brazilian teacher and artist active in literature and visual arts in parallel with his biology classes. He has participated in many national and international poetry slams and spoken words events with great success since 2016 and published many books and zines.
Peter Stephan Jungk was born in Santa Monica, California, in 1952. The son of Jewish emigrants spent his childhood and youth in Vienna, West Berlin, and Salzburg. He then became an assistant director at the Theater of Basel and worked on several films before studying at the American Film Institute
Péter Nádas was born Budapest in 1942. In the 1960s he was a photo reporter and journalist, and worked for »Nök Lapja« magazine and the daily »Pest Megyei Hirlap«. At the age of 23 he gave his literary debut with »A biblia« (1967; tr.: The Bible). The novella about the
Pergentino José was born in a Zapotec village in the Pacific highlands of the Mexican state of Oaxaca in 1981. He earned a B.A. in Education from the Escuela Normal Intercultural de Tlacochahuaya and a Master’s in Hispanic American Literature from the Universidad Austral de Chile UACH.José writes in both
born in 1999 in Regensburg, studied Stage Design at the UdK Berlin and Directing at the Otto Falckenberg School Munich. She creates theatre pieces with the collectives lass mich bitte die Kinder sehen and Grizzly and Leo Productions. She likes to write and enjoys arts and crafts. Her piece “Chickenfilet”
