SHARON MERTINS is the Director of The Reader Berlin. A Guatemalan writer based in Berlin, she is responsible for all programming and recruiting at The Reader. She has been a featured writer on Visual Verse and her work has appeared in Jersey Devil Press, Café Irreal,, Leopardskin and Limes and The Wild Word Anthology, among others. … Read more
MARIEKE BIGG writes about bodies and culture. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge, where she studied the technological transformation of human reproduction. She now writes both nonfiction and fiction about the cultural dimensions of biology and bodies. Her debut novel, Waiting for Ted (Dead Ink Press, forthcoming October 2022) was described by … Read more
JUDY MOORE is a multifunctional artist and busy little bee. She writes the web comic memoir Everything is Somewhat Repaired and is working on a gothic romance comic about the movie star Montgomery Clift. She has exhibited extensively, including at Whose Museum, the National Portrait Gallery London, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. She’s been published … Read more
SANDERS ISAAC BERNSTEIN is a writer living in Berlin. His work has appeared in newyorker.com, Los Angeles Review of Books, Hypocrite Reader, Ploughshares, Slow Travel Berlin, London Magazine, Majuscule, and The Bad Version, a literary magazine he founded and edited from 2011-2014. He holds degrees from Harvard College, the University of Oxford, and the University of Southern California, where … Read more
Sara Larsen is an American poet living in Berlin. Her fourth book of poetry, Detonated Mirror, is forthcoming in 2023 from The Elephants Press. Previous books include The Riot Grrrl Thing (Roof Books), Merry Hell (Atelos Press) and All Revolutions Will Be Fabulous (Printing Press). Recent poems have appeared at The Brooklyn Rail, NEW: The Journal of American Poetry, and Nouvelle poésie des États-Unis: Nioques. She … Read more
SASKYA JAIN is a writer based in New Delhi and Berlin. She holds an MFA in Fiction from Boston University. Her first novel, Fire Under Ash, was published by Random House India in 2014 and shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt Prize in 2015. Her second novel is forthcoming later this year with Simon & Schuster India. Her short stories and essays have appeared in numerous journals in … Read more
JANE FLETT is a Scottish writer based in Berlin. Her fiction has been commissioned for BBC Radio 4, featured in Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading, and awarded the New Orleans Writing Residency. Her poetry features in the Best British Poetry and received the Berlin Senate Award for non-German literature. She is represented by Marina de Pass … Read more
VICTORIA GOSLING is the founder of The Reader Berlin and The Berlin Writing Prize. In 2021, her debut novel BEFORE THE RUINS was published by Henry Holt (USA) and Serpent’s Tail (UK). Her second novel BLISS AND BLUNDER is forthcoming from Serpent’s Tail in summer 2023. She is represented by Judith Murray of literary agency Greene … Read more
OLIVIA PARKES is a British-American writer and artist based in Berlin. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House, Electric Literature, American Short Fiction, Zyzzyva, and The Masters Review, among other publications. She received her MFA in Fiction from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 2021 and is the recipient of fellowships from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Dorothea Konwiarz Stiftung, and … Read more
