KRISTEN HARRISON taught production and print management in her native Melbourne, before moving to London in 2004 to work in Penguin’s production and editorial departments. In 2011, she founded The Curved House. Described by the UK Bookseller as “the ultimate hybrid company”, The Curved House produces books, websites and videos for publishers and book-related business … Read more
AMBIKA THOMPSON (they/them) is the Director of The Reader Berlin. Their work has been featured in Electric Literature, Riddle Fence, Crab Fat Magazine, Fanzine, Joyland, The Fiddlehead, and PANK, among others. Holding an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, Ambika also is as a fiction editor at Berlin’s SAND Journal.
REBECCA RUKEYSER is the author of The Seaplane on Final Approach, her debut novel out June 2022 from Doubleday (USA) and Granta Books (UK). Her fiction has been awarded the inaugural Berlin Senate Endowment for Non-German Literature and anthologized in Best American Nonrequired Reading. She received an MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Davis, California, Rebecca … Read more
NICK MAKOHA’s first full-length collection ‘Kingdom of Gravity’ was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for best first collection (Forward Prizes for Poetry) and he was the 2015 winner of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. He toured the UK with his solo show My Father & Other Superheroes. His advice to young poets is … Read more
RACHAEL ALLEN’s first collection of poems, KINGDOMLAND, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. Her collaboration with the painter Marie Jacotey, NIGHTS OF POOR SLEEP, was published as a co-authored artists’ book in 2017 by Test Centre. Rachael is poetry editor at GRANTA and co-founder of poetry press clinic and online journal TENDER. She is the recipient of a Northern Writers’ … Read more
NIKESH SHUKLA is the author of three novels. Most recently, he authored the critically acclaimed The One Who Wrote Destiny (2018). His debut novel, Coconut Unlimited, was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award 2010. His second novel Meatspace was released to critical acclaim in 2014. Nikesh has written for The Guardian, Observer, Independent, Esquire, Buzzfeed, Vice, BBC2, LitHub, Guernica, and … Read more
SOPHIE MACKINTOSH was born in South Wales in 1988 and is currently based in London. Her fiction, essays and poetry have been published by Granta, The White Review, The New York Times, and The Stinging Fly, among others. Her short story ‘Grace’ was the winner of the 2016 White Review Short Story Prize, and her story ‘The Running … Read more
BEN FERGUSSON is a writer and translator from the UK. His debut novel, The Spring of Kasper Meier (2014), won the Betty Trask Prize and the HWA Debut Crown, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. It was the first in a trilogy of novels set in Berlin, completed by The Other Hoffmann … Read more
SEASON BUTLER is a writer, artist, dramaturg and lecturer in Performance Studies and Creative Writing. Her writing, research and art practice centre around intersectionality and narratives of otherness, isolation and negotiations with hope. Her recent artwork has appeared in the Baltic Centre, Tate Exchange and Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art. Her debut novel, Cygnet, was published … Read more
SASKIA VOGEL is from Los Angeles and lives in Berlin, where she works as a writer and Swedish-to-English literary translator. Permission (Dialogue Books/Coach House Books), her debut novel was published in March 2019. Saskia’s translations include books by some of Sweden’s most exciting contemporary voices, such as Lena Andersson, Johannes Anyuru, Karolina Ramqvist, and Lina … Read more
RYAN VAN WINKLE is a poet, live artist, podcaster and critic living in Edinburgh. His second collection, The Good Dark, won the Saltire Society’s 2015 Poetry Book of the Year award. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The Prairie Schooner, The American Poetry Review, AGNI and Best Scottish Poems 2015. He was awarded a Robert Louis … Read more
MIKAELLA CLEMENTS is the co-author of The View Was Exhausting, a modern love story interrogating celebrity, identity and privacy which she wrote with her wife Onjuli Datta, due out in July 2021 from Grand Central Publishing and Headline Review. Her fiction has also appeared in Catapult, Hazlitt and Overland Literary Journal, and she was shortlisted in the 2019 Galley … Read more
