Ilaria Gaspari was born in Milan in 1986. At 18 she moved to Pisa to study philosophy at the Scuola Normale. She stayed in Pisa for five years, writing her BA dissertation on pantheism in German philosophy, and her MA on imagination in Spinoza. After that she moved to Paris where she wrote her docto…

Rebecca F. John was born in 1986, and grew up in Pwll, a small village on the South Wales coast.  She holds a BA Hons in English with Creative Writing (1st class) and an MA in Creative Writing (distinction) from Swansea University. Her short stories have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4.  In …

Mercedes Lauenstein was born in 1988 in Kappeln an der Schlei. She works as a freelance author, writing essays and articles for various newspapers and magazines. She lives in Munich. Her first book is entitled "Nachts".…

Nina Polak is an author of fiction and non-fiction. She was born in Haarlem and studied Dutch, literary theory and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam and the New School in New York. As an editor she is affiliated with the online journalistic platform "De Correspondent". She also writes…