Alberto Quero was born in Venezuela and holds a BA in Literature and Linguistics, an MA in Literature, and a Doctorate in Humanities. He is a teacher of English, French and Spanish and the correspondent for Latin America at CKCU FM 93.1 in Ottawa. He has published six books of short stories, two books of poetry, numerous academic papers, and is winner of several literary awards. Alberto’s texts have been compiled in multiple anthologies.
Aleesha Nandhra is an illustrator and printmaker from London. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Art, she has worked with clients like Google, The LA Times, and The Barbican, and has been shortlisted for The World Illustration Awards. Her work explores themes of nature, culture, mental health, and everyday life. Aleesha also co-runs Mil Ke Chai, an artist-led café promoting community and creative collaboration.
An Ngo Lang was born in Việt Nam and now lives in Sydney, Australia. Her writing has appeared in Hope: an Anthology of New Authors 2021, The VVA Veteran, and diaCRITICS. She was shortlisted for The Hope Prize, a global literary award. To find out more about An, please visit her at anngolang.com.
Andrea Damic, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, is an artist and writer living in Sydney, Australia. She thinks there’s something cathartic about seeing your words and art out in the world. You can see her work on her website: https:// damicandrea.wordpress.com
Anitha Sundararajan is a freelance writer living in London. Originally from Chennai, India, she writes in a mix of English and Tamil. She has a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge and is working on her first novel.
Anna Molman is a Ukrainian disabled writer living in Scotland. She has written 40 short stories and 10 novels in Ukrainian. Her first published novel, Tango of Water and Flame, was translated into English. Anna won the REWRITE literary competition (2022), the Fantastic Lesya competition (2021), and the Scottish Refugee Council Cross Borders Cultural Award (2023).
Arbër Qerka-Gashi is a London-based Writer, Curator and Researcher. He holds a BA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Master’s in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture from Birkbeck, University of London. Arber's written work focuses on a range of themes related to the Balkans, diaspora and refugee experiences, ecology and Kosovo’s cultural history.
Awa Farah is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cambridge, focusing on the migration and mobility of Black Muslim diaspora groups in the UK. An award-winning filmmaker, she wrote and produced BFI Doc Society’s short film Somalinimo, published by The Guardian in 2020. In 2021 she worked on the film, A Life in a Day, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival. In 2022, she worked on the Bafta award winning BBC documentary The real Mo Farah. She is also the founder of Siman Foundation, an NGO that democratises access to education.
B. Anne Adriaens is a Belgian immigrant based in Somerset. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Poetry Ireland Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, Skylight 47, Amsterdam Quarterly and Stand Magazine (forthcoming). Both her poetry and her fiction reflect her interest in alienation and dystopia.
Beja Protner is a sociocultural anthropologist with interest in displacement/ emplacement, temporalities, memory, subjectivity, affect, emotions, revolutionary movements, and political exile. She has worked with the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) in London (2018) and Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) in Greece (2020-21), and participated together with Kurdish and left-wing exiles from Turkey in the struggles against border violence as an activist in Athens.
Benjamin Abtan's family are Jews from southern Morocco who had to immigrate because of rising antisemitism. He dedicates his life to advancing social justice. His fiction work explores transgenerational impacts of migration, systems of domination and resistance, with a special attention to underrepresented female voices. Benjamin’s work was published in The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International and the other side of hope literary magazines.
Bhanu Kapil is the author of six books and an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College in Cambridge. Her recent works include How To Wash A Heart, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and two editions of Incubation: a space for monsters. Kapil has also received the Windham Campbell Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Literature.
Birgit Friedrich, originally from Germany, found her home in Nottingham in her thirties, immersing herself in the city’s vibrant life. Her poetry and fiction delve into her personal journey and explore themes of resilience, cultural integration and belonging. Her work has been featured in various publications. After her MA in Creative Writing, she co-founded Dandelion’s Poetry, a local poetry group. She enjoys spending time with her friends.
Carolina Christevelyn Pay is a writer who lives in Liverpool. Born to a multicultural background, she draws inspiration from her diverse roots, which enrich her storytelling and poetic expressions. Carolina has written poems, novellas, and children’s books. A Place to Belong was one of her pieces featured previously in the other side of hope.
Danai Avgeri is a political geographer and ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research delves into borders, mobility, security, racial capitalism, and the humanitarian-development nexus. In her current project, she explores how Europe’s racialized borders are maintained through containment infrastructure, classification regimes, and destitution economies, particularly in the context of austerity and migrant (im)mobility in crisis-hit Greece.
Dita N. Love is an interdisciplinary social scientist and education researcher at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Her work spans youth education, creative arts, and abolitionist social justice. Dita’s research focuses on trauma- sensitive creative and critical digital methods. Her ESRC-funded project explored youth development and educational justice in collaboration with Young Identity. Dita is also an emerging European poet, with publications in several prestigious journals.
Ebtisam Elghblawi, a Libyan dermatologist of Amazigh descent, poet, and painter, began writing in 2007. After moving to the UK, passing the GMC exams, and started working, she was severely injured by a hit-and-run e-bike rider. Despite a fractured nose, left pinky, knee, she channels her experiences into writing, believing in the power of words and imagination to create positive change, drawing inspiration from personal experiences, observations, and nature.
Fatemeh Takht-Keshian, born in Tehran, lives and works in London. She received her practice-based PhD in Art from Lancaster University in 2017. Her art, incorporating collage, image transfer, and video, explores the relationship between identity and memory. She challenges the idea of time as a linear continuum, proposing a multidimensional perspective.
The Poet Godwin Akinyele is a UK-based Nigerian, an LLB (Law) graduate of University of London, a qualified senior paralegal, a passionate writer, a speaker, an advocate for refugees and asylum seekers. Godwin hosted the Refugees Week in 2020 with over 100 attendees, including Members of the Senedd. Godwin has won several awards and was recently invited by the King of the United Kingdom. He’s Married to Victoria with kids.
Gracie Mae Bradley is a thinker, writer, and campaigner focused on civil liberties, migration, surveillance, and state racism. She co-founded the ‘Against Borders for Children’ campaign, led policy at Liberty, and coordinated Grenfell Testimony Week. Gracie hosts the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Locating Legacies podcast and is the co-author of Against Borders. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, and more.
As a Romanian living in the UK, Irina Cristache-Taylor draws from her experience working in restaurants to portray the dangerous and invisible world of immigrant workers. Having witnessed the abuse migrants face, she aims to shed light on these environments, hoping that awareness can catalyse change.
Ms. Jolin Tang is a poet pursuing an MPhil in Arts, Creativity, and Education at the University of Cambridge. With over eight years of experience writing poetry and lyrics in both Chinese and English, she explores poetry's role in artistic practice and academic research. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Hong Kong, with publications in literary journals across China, Macau, and Hong Kong.
Julie Watson is a volunteer ESOL teacher of refugees, retired and living in the UK. She has lived, taught and travelled extensively abroad. She is a published writer and her most recent book is Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales available via Amazon. Bluesky: julieoniw.bsky.social , Linkedin: juliewatson1/
Dr Khawla Badwan is a Palestinian-British academic whose scholarship explores language and social justice in education. She completed her BA in English Literature and Linguistics at the Islamic University of Gaza which was completely destroyed by Israel during the ongoing Gaza Genocide. Khawla holds a doctorate in Education. Her poetic screams are an attempt to use language to feel and bear witness.
Kylie Wang is a Taiwanese writer who moved to California from Hong Kong and now studies engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her short works have received 40+ awards and publications. Her debut novel, Stuck in Her Head, won Gold for Best First YA Book in the 2024 IPPYs. Instagram: @kyliewangwrites.
Over seventy-five of Laura J. Campbell’s short stories have appeared in Chilling Crime Stories, Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Vol. 6, Reader Beware: A Fear Street Appreciation Anthology, and other publications. Most of her work is available on Amazon. Laura is encouraged in her writing by her children, Alexander and Samantha.
Linh S. Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Canadian immigrant and author specializing in children’s literature and creative non-fiction. Her debut middle-grade fantasy novel, NO PLACE LIKE HOME (HarperCollins Canada/Inkyard Press 2023), explores a young immigrant’s journey to redefine home. Linh holds an H.B.A. in English from the University of Toronto and an MPhil in Arts, Creativity, and Education from Cambridge, where she is completing her PhD.
Luca Spiller is an Italian writer based in London. He holds a Master degree in forced migration. Curious by nature, he is always keen to learn from others and understand different journeys and perspectives.
Maria Cohut is a writer of Romanian origin who adopted Britain as her second home well over a decade ago. She is haunted by questions of identity, belonging, displacement, and what makes us human. Her first poetry chapbook, Spatter Pattern (back room poetry, 2023), explores the issue of gender violence by reimagining detective fiction tropes.
Marieke Vreeken is a human rights lawyer from the Netherlands, currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She mostly writes essays, short stories and poetry. Her work has featured in several literary magazines and migration-related journals in the Netherlands, including Asiel- en Migrantenrecht, Op Ruwe Planken and Hard//hoofd.
Maryam Bham is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the experiences of Muslim teachers in England. With a rich academic background and a passion for art and poetry, she uses her creative voice to discuss her own experiences of racism and champion decolonial perspectives within education.
Momtaza Mehri is a poet and researcher working across criticism, education, and radio. A former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London, she is the current Poet- in-Residence at Homerton College, Cambridge. Her debut collection, Bad Diaspora Poems, won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, as well as an Eric Gregory Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award.
Muntather Alsawad was raised on a date farm in southern Iraq. He studied literary criticism at Basra University and published articles and poems in Arabic. Since arriving in the US, he has devoted himself to translating (in partnership with Jeffrey Clapp) Iraqi poetry into English, as well as writing poetry of his own. Their translations have appeared in Asymptote, Samovar, Last Stanza, AzonaL and others. He lives in Portland, Maine.
Pegah Ouji is an Iranian-American writer who writes in Farsi and English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Joyland, Epiphany, Fugue, Split Lip, Necessary Fiction among others. She was a 2024 Emerging Writer Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly as well as an editorial fellow at Roots, Wounds, Words.
Phil Buttafuoco immigrated to America from Sicily. He served this country honorably in the US Air Force. Phil’s poem Asylum was published in Bards Long Island Haunts anthology. Phil published a children’s picture book, Andre Learning Hair Styling, which was chosen as a finalist in the 2023 Best Book Awards. His poem Despair was published in Writing Outside the Lines anthology. His poem Refresh of Sanity has been accepted by Bards Annual 2024 anthology.
Peter Quach is a Brooklyn-based comic book artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Believer. His notable comics include Pinan, published in English and Spanish, and I Am a Racist (And So Can You), featured in Best American Comics 2013. Peter also freelances for clients like Penguin Random House and teaches art classes in Chicago.
Polina Cosgrave is a bilingual writer/performer based in Dublin. Polina’s debut poetry collection My Name Is was published by Dedalus Press. Her work appeared on TV, radio and in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Stinging Fly, Crannóg, Southword, Banshee and The Irish Times. Polina’s second poetry collection Cargo was published by The Gallery Press (2024).
Saligrama K. Aithal is a writer, scholar, and a literary critic with 40+ years of teaching/ research background at the college/university levels, advantage of education and job experience in two Worlds, the East and the West. He has published his creative writing and articles in scholarly international journals on a wide range of authors and topics.
Sara Milić is a Bosnian-American international student at Lancaster University where she is finishing her MA in Creative Writing. Sara’s experiences as a former war refugee and immigrant greatly influence her work in prose and poetry, through which she aims to shed light on the marginalized Balkan diaspora.
Born in apartheid South Africa, Shereen Pandit became a lawyer, lecturer, political activist and trade unionist. Exiled in the UK, she completed a PhD in law, contin- ued her activism and began writing. Much of Shereen’s current political activity revolves around the Palestinian cause. She is a volunteer English teacher for young Palestinians. Her work has been widely published. She has won and been shortlisted for several prizes. Her work has been on stage and radio in the USA and is used in European schools.
Temitayo Olofinlua is a writer and editor based in Birmingham. She is the founder of Stories Click, a content studio that tells stories with words and pictures. Find her on social media: @writewithtayo.
TWP Tilden is an American expat living between Barcelona, Spain and Munich, Germany. Apart from writing, his interests include politics, psychology, film. He actively competes in amateur golf and wrestling contests.
William Andrews is a Tokyo-based writer and translator from the UK. He writes and researches about sociocultural history, with particular interests in social move- ments and countercultures, urban space and gentrification, and the performing and visual arts. He is currently pursuing a PhD on the early films of Adachi Masao.
Aleesha Nandhra is an illustrator and printmaker from London. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Art, she has worked with clients like Google, The LA Times, and The Barbican, and has been shortlisted for The World Illustration Awards. Her work explores themes of nature, culture, mental health, and everyday life. Aleesha also co-runs Mil Ke Chai, an artist-led café promoting community and creative collaboration.
An Ngo Lang was born in Việt Nam and now lives in Sydney, Australia. Her writing has appeared in Hope: an Anthology of New Authors 2021, The VVA Veteran, and diaCRITICS. She was shortlisted for The Hope Prize, a global literary award. To find out more about An, please visit her at anngolang.com.
Andrea Damic, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, is an artist and writer living in Sydney, Australia. She thinks there’s something cathartic about seeing your words and art out in the world. You can see her work on her website: https:// damicandrea.wordpress.com
Anitha Sundararajan is a freelance writer living in London. Originally from Chennai, India, she writes in a mix of English and Tamil. She has a Master's in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge and is working on her first novel.
Anna Molman is a Ukrainian disabled writer living in Scotland. She has written 40 short stories and 10 novels in Ukrainian. Her first published novel, Tango of Water and Flame, was translated into English. Anna won the REWRITE literary competition (2022), the Fantastic Lesya competition (2021), and the Scottish Refugee Council Cross Borders Cultural Award (2023).
Arbër Qerka-Gashi is a London-based Writer, Curator and Researcher. He holds a BA in History from Goldsmiths, University of London, and a Master’s in Gender, Sexuality, and Culture from Birkbeck, University of London. Arber's written work focuses on a range of themes related to the Balkans, diaspora and refugee experiences, ecology and Kosovo’s cultural history.
Awa Farah is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Cambridge, focusing on the migration and mobility of Black Muslim diaspora groups in the UK. An award-winning filmmaker, she wrote and produced BFI Doc Society’s short film Somalinimo, published by The Guardian in 2020. In 2021 she worked on the film, A Life in a Day, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival. In 2022, she worked on the Bafta award winning BBC documentary The real Mo Farah. She is also the founder of Siman Foundation, an NGO that democratises access to education.
B. Anne Adriaens is a Belgian immigrant based in Somerset. Her work has appeared in various publications, including Poetry Ireland Review, Ink Sweat and Tears, Skylight 47, Amsterdam Quarterly and Stand Magazine (forthcoming). Both her poetry and her fiction reflect her interest in alienation and dystopia.
Beja Protner is a sociocultural anthropologist with interest in displacement/ emplacement, temporalities, memory, subjectivity, affect, emotions, revolutionary movements, and political exile. She has worked with the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) in London (2018) and Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN) in Greece (2020-21), and participated together with Kurdish and left-wing exiles from Turkey in the struggles against border violence as an activist in Athens.
Benjamin Abtan's family are Jews from southern Morocco who had to immigrate because of rising antisemitism. He dedicates his life to advancing social justice. His fiction work explores transgenerational impacts of migration, systems of domination and resistance, with a special attention to underrepresented female voices. Benjamin’s work was published in The Massachusetts Review, Fiction International and the other side of hope literary magazines.
Bhanu Kapil is the author of six books and an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College in Cambridge. Her recent works include How To Wash A Heart, which won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and two editions of Incubation: a space for monsters. Kapil has also received the Windham Campbell Prize, a Cholmondeley Award, and a Fellowship from the Royal Society of Literature.
Birgit Friedrich, originally from Germany, found her home in Nottingham in her thirties, immersing herself in the city’s vibrant life. Her poetry and fiction delve into her personal journey and explore themes of resilience, cultural integration and belonging. Her work has been featured in various publications. After her MA in Creative Writing, she co-founded Dandelion’s Poetry, a local poetry group. She enjoys spending time with her friends.
Carolina Christevelyn Pay is a writer who lives in Liverpool. Born to a multicultural background, she draws inspiration from her diverse roots, which enrich her storytelling and poetic expressions. Carolina has written poems, novellas, and children’s books. A Place to Belong was one of her pieces featured previously in the other side of hope.
Danai Avgeri is a political geographer and ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Her research delves into borders, mobility, security, racial capitalism, and the humanitarian-development nexus. In her current project, she explores how Europe’s racialized borders are maintained through containment infrastructure, classification regimes, and destitution economies, particularly in the context of austerity and migrant (im)mobility in crisis-hit Greece.
Dita N. Love is an interdisciplinary social scientist and education researcher at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. Her work spans youth education, creative arts, and abolitionist social justice. Dita’s research focuses on trauma- sensitive creative and critical digital methods. Her ESRC-funded project explored youth development and educational justice in collaboration with Young Identity. Dita is also an emerging European poet, with publications in several prestigious journals.
Ebtisam Elghblawi, a Libyan dermatologist of Amazigh descent, poet, and painter, began writing in 2007. After moving to the UK, passing the GMC exams, and started working, she was severely injured by a hit-and-run e-bike rider. Despite a fractured nose, left pinky, knee, she channels her experiences into writing, believing in the power of words and imagination to create positive change, drawing inspiration from personal experiences, observations, and nature.
Fatemeh Takht-Keshian, born in Tehran, lives and works in London. She received her practice-based PhD in Art from Lancaster University in 2017. Her art, incorporating collage, image transfer, and video, explores the relationship between identity and memory. She challenges the idea of time as a linear continuum, proposing a multidimensional perspective.
The Poet Godwin Akinyele is a UK-based Nigerian, an LLB (Law) graduate of University of London, a qualified senior paralegal, a passionate writer, a speaker, an advocate for refugees and asylum seekers. Godwin hosted the Refugees Week in 2020 with over 100 attendees, including Members of the Senedd. Godwin has won several awards and was recently invited by the King of the United Kingdom. He’s Married to Victoria with kids.
Gracie Mae Bradley is a thinker, writer, and campaigner focused on civil liberties, migration, surveillance, and state racism. She co-founded the ‘Against Borders for Children’ campaign, led policy at Liberty, and coordinated Grenfell Testimony Week. Gracie hosts the Stuart Hall Foundation’s Locating Legacies podcast and is the co-author of Against Borders. Her work has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, and more.
As a Romanian living in the UK, Irina Cristache-Taylor draws from her experience working in restaurants to portray the dangerous and invisible world of immigrant workers. Having witnessed the abuse migrants face, she aims to shed light on these environments, hoping that awareness can catalyse change.
Ms. Jolin Tang is a poet pursuing an MPhil in Arts, Creativity, and Education at the University of Cambridge. With over eight years of experience writing poetry and lyrics in both Chinese and English, she explores poetry's role in artistic practice and academic research. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Hong Kong, with publications in literary journals across China, Macau, and Hong Kong.
Julie Watson is a volunteer ESOL teacher of refugees, retired and living in the UK. She has lived, taught and travelled extensively abroad. She is a published writer and her most recent book is Travel Takeaways: Around the World in Forty Tales available via Amazon. Bluesky: julieoniw.bsky.social , Linkedin: juliewatson1/
Dr Khawla Badwan is a Palestinian-British academic whose scholarship explores language and social justice in education. She completed her BA in English Literature and Linguistics at the Islamic University of Gaza which was completely destroyed by Israel during the ongoing Gaza Genocide. Khawla holds a doctorate in Education. Her poetic screams are an attempt to use language to feel and bear witness.
Kylie Wang is a Taiwanese writer who moved to California from Hong Kong and now studies engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Her short works have received 40+ awards and publications. Her debut novel, Stuck in Her Head, won Gold for Best First YA Book in the 2024 IPPYs. Instagram: @kyliewangwrites.
Over seventy-five of Laura J. Campbell’s short stories have appeared in Chilling Crime Stories, Road Kill: Texas Horror by Texas Writers Vol. 6, Reader Beware: A Fear Street Appreciation Anthology, and other publications. Most of her work is available on Amazon. Laura is encouraged in her writing by her children, Alexander and Samantha.
Linh S. Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Canadian immigrant and author specializing in children’s literature and creative non-fiction. Her debut middle-grade fantasy novel, NO PLACE LIKE HOME (HarperCollins Canada/Inkyard Press 2023), explores a young immigrant’s journey to redefine home. Linh holds an H.B.A. in English from the University of Toronto and an MPhil in Arts, Creativity, and Education from Cambridge, where she is completing her PhD.
Luca Spiller is an Italian writer based in London. He holds a Master degree in forced migration. Curious by nature, he is always keen to learn from others and understand different journeys and perspectives.
Maria Cohut is a writer of Romanian origin who adopted Britain as her second home well over a decade ago. She is haunted by questions of identity, belonging, displacement, and what makes us human. Her first poetry chapbook, Spatter Pattern (back room poetry, 2023), explores the issue of gender violence by reimagining detective fiction tropes.
Marieke Vreeken is a human rights lawyer from the Netherlands, currently living and working in Brussels, Belgium. She mostly writes essays, short stories and poetry. Her work has featured in several literary magazines and migration-related journals in the Netherlands, including Asiel- en Migrantenrecht, Op Ruwe Planken and Hard//hoofd.
Maryam Bham is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the experiences of Muslim teachers in England. With a rich academic background and a passion for art and poetry, she uses her creative voice to discuss her own experiences of racism and champion decolonial perspectives within education.
Momtaza Mehri is a poet and researcher working across criticism, education, and radio. A former Young People’s Poet Laureate for London, she is the current Poet- in-Residence at Homerton College, Cambridge. Her debut collection, Bad Diaspora Poems, won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best First Collection, as well as an Eric Gregory Prize and a Somerset Maugham Award.
Muntather Alsawad was raised on a date farm in southern Iraq. He studied literary criticism at Basra University and published articles and poems in Arabic. Since arriving in the US, he has devoted himself to translating (in partnership with Jeffrey Clapp) Iraqi poetry into English, as well as writing poetry of his own. Their translations have appeared in Asymptote, Samovar, Last Stanza, AzonaL and others. He lives in Portland, Maine.
Pegah Ouji is an Iranian-American writer who writes in Farsi and English. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming from Joyland, Epiphany, Fugue, Split Lip, Necessary Fiction among others. She was a 2024 Emerging Writer Fellow at SmokeLong Quarterly as well as an editorial fellow at Roots, Wounds, Words.
Phil Buttafuoco immigrated to America from Sicily. He served this country honorably in the US Air Force. Phil’s poem Asylum was published in Bards Long Island Haunts anthology. Phil published a children’s picture book, Andre Learning Hair Styling, which was chosen as a finalist in the 2023 Best Book Awards. His poem Despair was published in Writing Outside the Lines anthology. His poem Refresh of Sanity has been accepted by Bards Annual 2024 anthology.
Peter Quach is a Brooklyn-based comic book artist, illustrator, and graphic designer. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and The Believer. His notable comics include Pinan, published in English and Spanish, and I Am a Racist (And So Can You), featured in Best American Comics 2013. Peter also freelances for clients like Penguin Random House and teaches art classes in Chicago.
Polina Cosgrave is a bilingual writer/performer based in Dublin. Polina’s debut poetry collection My Name Is was published by Dedalus Press. Her work appeared on TV, radio and in numerous anthologies and magazines, including The Stinging Fly, Crannóg, Southword, Banshee and The Irish Times. Polina’s second poetry collection Cargo was published by The Gallery Press (2024).
Saligrama K. Aithal is a writer, scholar, and a literary critic with 40+ years of teaching/ research background at the college/university levels, advantage of education and job experience in two Worlds, the East and the West. He has published his creative writing and articles in scholarly international journals on a wide range of authors and topics.
Sara Milić is a Bosnian-American international student at Lancaster University where she is finishing her MA in Creative Writing. Sara’s experiences as a former war refugee and immigrant greatly influence her work in prose and poetry, through which she aims to shed light on the marginalized Balkan diaspora.
Born in apartheid South Africa, Shereen Pandit became a lawyer, lecturer, political activist and trade unionist. Exiled in the UK, she completed a PhD in law, contin- ued her activism and began writing. Much of Shereen’s current political activity revolves around the Palestinian cause. She is a volunteer English teacher for young Palestinians. Her work has been widely published. She has won and been shortlisted for several prizes. Her work has been on stage and radio in the USA and is used in European schools.
Temitayo Olofinlua is a writer and editor based in Birmingham. She is the founder of Stories Click, a content studio that tells stories with words and pictures. Find her on social media: @writewithtayo.
TWP Tilden is an American expat living between Barcelona, Spain and Munich, Germany. Apart from writing, his interests include politics, psychology, film. He actively competes in amateur golf and wrestling contests.
William Andrews is a Tokyo-based writer and translator from the UK. He writes and researches about sociocultural history, with particular interests in social move- ments and countercultures, urban space and gentrification, and the performing and visual arts. He is currently pursuing a PhD on the early films of Adachi Masao.
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