Annabel Abbs-Streets
U.K.
Annabel Abbs-Streets is the author of eight books—fiction, non-fiction, memoir, and biography—and a journalist. Her work has won multiple awards and been translated into over 30 languages. She writes regularly for many newspapers including The Guardian, and speaks regularly at literary festivals across the world. She lives in London.
Alba Noguera Arbós
Catalunya
Alba Noguera is a writer from Mallorca, Spain. They hold a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Granada and a Master's in Philosophy and Cultural Analysis from the University of Amsterdam. Their debut novel, Monument (2025), received the Antoni Vidal Ferrando Prize for Narrative. They have been a finalist for the Salvador Iborra Award for Young Catalan Poetry and a writer-in-residence at Casa Blai Bonet in Santanyí, Mallorca. Their work explores questions of place, identity, and collective memory through the lens of embodiment, island geographies, and queer experience. They are currently working on a short story collection around the possibilities of love and loss in an island that sinks.
Ava Chin
U.S.
Ava Chin is the author of Mott Street, a CALA Book Award winner, PEN/Open Book Finalist, and winner of the M.F.K. Fisher Book Award for excellence in food writing. She is the recipient of grants from the NYPL’s Cullman Center, Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program, NYFA, the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, and MacDowell. She is a Professor of Creative Nonfiction at the CUNY Graduate Center, and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford. The Huff Post named her as one of "9 Contemporary Authors You Should Be Reading."
Patty Crane
U.S.
Patty Crane, poet and translator, is the author of BELL I WAKE TO (Zone 3 Press First Book Award, 2019), something flown (Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award, 2018), and translator of “THE BLUE HOUSE: Collected Works of Tomas Tranströmer” (Copper Canyon Press, 2023)—winner of the 2024 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, and BRIGHT SCYTHE (Sarabande Books, 2015), her selected translations of the Swedish Nobel laureate. Her poetry and translations have appeared widely in journals and anthologies, and her work has been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, and the Jan Michalski Foundation.
Tânia Ganho
Portugal
Tânia Ganho has devoted herself to writing and translating fiction for the past 25 years. She has translated authors such as Alice Walker, Annie Ernaux, Chimamanda Adichie, Elizabeth Strout, Leïla Slimani, Maya Angelou, Siri Hustvedt, and Toni Morrison, among many others. She is the author of "Apneia" (2020), soon to be adapted for the screen; "O Meu Pai Voava" (a memoir, 2024); and "Lobos" (2025), which won a literary grant from the Ministry of Culture. She has been awarded fellowships by ATLAS (France), Archipelagos (France), Literature Ireland, and the Fundação Eça de Queiroz (Portugal), and was a translator-in-residence at University College Cork (2026). Ganho ran a book club at Caxias Prison for two years, and is a volunteer at a wolf sanctuary.
Saleem Haddad
Portugal / Lebanon / Palestine / U.K.
Saleem Haddad is the author of the novel Guapa (2016), which won a Stonewall Honor, the Polari Prize, and has been translated into eight languages. Haddad also published Floodlines (2026), which was listed by The New Yorker as one of the best books of 2026 so far. He also writes short stories, essays, and for film and television. His directorial debut, Marco (2019), was nominated for the Iris Prize for Best British Short Film. His writing has been supported by institutions such as Yaddo and the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin.
Pau Mantel
Germany
Pau Mantel is an illustrator and graphic designer specializing in comics, children's books, and serious games. Mantel’s work focuses on science communication, mainly from the field of biology. Making socially relevant topics accessible by presenting them in clear language with a strong visual strategy and illustrations is key to Mantel’s work. In addition to graphic design and illustration, Mantel works in education on global topics. Mantel holds a MSc in Biology from Humboldt-Universität Berlin, and a BA in Visual Communication from Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. Mantel’s thesis is a series of children’s books on laughter, mixing stories with scientific learning.
Mónica Rosenblum
Argentina / Bolivia
Mónica Rosenblum is a writer, poet, and psychotherapist, born in Bolivia and living in Argentina since age six. She is the author of several poetry collections, including “El mecanismo” (2021), and the novella “El caso Peralta o por hache y por bé” (2015). She edited Una imagen para decirlo (2022), an anthology inspired by a photograph linked to Argentina’s last military dictatorship. Her current nonfiction project, Archivo Tajador, explores memory, migration, family history, childhood, and language through photographs from her personal archive. She lives in Buenos Aires, where she leads writing workshops and facilitates community therapy groups.