Peace Adzo Medie is a Ghanaian writer and Senior Lecturer in Gender and International Politics at the University of Bristol in England. Prior to that she was a Research Fellow at the University of Ghana. She has published several short

Suzanne Park is a Korean-American writer who was born and raised in Tennessee. Suzanne graduated from Columbia University and received an MBA degree from UCLA. She currently resides in Los Angeles with her husband, female offspring, and a sneaky rat

Gill was born in Scotland and grew up there, apart from an eventful year at school in the US when she was ten. She studied Medicine at Glasgow University, then English Literature and History (she was a student for a

Margot Livesey grew up in a boys’ private school in the Scottish Highlands where her father taught, and her mother, Eva, was the school nurse. Margot has a B.A. in English and philosophy from the University of York in England.

Erica Katz is the pseudonym for a graduate of Columbia Law School who began her career at a major Manhattan law firm. A native of New Jersey, she now lives in New York City, where she’s employed at another large

Born in Trinidad, Ingrid Persaud studied law at the London School of Economics and was a legal academic before earning degrees in fine art at Goldsmiths College and Central Saint Martins. Her writing has appeared in Granta, Prospect, and Pree

Alice Feeney is a writer and journalist and she spent fifteen years at the BBC. Her debut novel, Sometimes I Lie, was a New York Times and international bestseller.

Sophie van Llewyn is the author of Bottled Goods, longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2019. Sophie also writes flash fiction, memoir, short stories, and she has recently finished a historical novel set during WW2.

Amy Poeppel grew up in Dallas, Texas. She graduated from Wellesley College and worked as an actress in the Boston area. While in Boston, she also got her M.A. in Teaching from Simmons College. Her novels are Small Admissions, Limelight

Lia Louis lives in the United Kingdom with her partner and three young children. Before raising a family, she worked as a freelance copywriter and proofreader. She is the author of Somewhere Close to Happy and Dear Emmie Blue.

Caroline Mackenzie is a freelance translator living in Trinidad. She was shortlisted for the 2017 Commonwealth Short Story Prize and her nonfiction articles are regularly featured in regional magazines MACO People and MACO Caribbean Living. Her short fiction has been

Lee Conell was awarded The Story Prize's Spotlight Award. Her short fiction has received the Chicago Tribune's Nelson Algren Award and appears in the Oxford American, Kenyon Review, Glimmer Train, American Short Fiction, and elsewhere.