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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

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 was published by Serpent’s Tail in August 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

KIRSTY LOGAN is the award-winning author of six books, including three short story collections which have won prizes and been optioned for TV, adapted for theatre, broadcast on radio, interpreted in dance, translated in several languages, and distributed from a vintage Wurlitzer cigarette machine. She is currently working on a new story collection and a … Read more

TRACI KIM is a freelance literary consultant from Chicago. She was The Reader’s program manager from 2018-2020 and now provides our manuscript assessments, coaching and editorial services – specializing in literary fiction and creative nonfiction, as well as B2B/C content editing. Traci is passionate about the power of storytelling and loves to find new ways … Read more

SUSANNA FORREST is the author of two critically acclaimed nonfiction titles that incorporate history, travel, memoir and reportage. Her latest, The Age of the Horse, is published by Atlantic Books in the UK and Atlantic Monthly Press in the USA. It’s currently being translated into Japanese by Hara Shobo. Described as “outstanding” (The Times) and … Read more

CLARE WIGFALL has lived in London, Berkeley, Prague, Edinburgh, and presently Berlin. Her debut short story collection The Loudest Sound and Nothing (Faber & Faber) was published in 2007 to critical acclaim, described by the Guardian as ‘energisingly, awe-inspiringly, intimidatingly good’. The following year she won the BBC National Short Story Award and was later … Read more

JESSICA MILLER Miller is the author of gothic middle-grade novel Elizabeth and Zenobia. Published in Australia (Text), North America (Abrams) and the U.K (Faber) and soon to be translated into Turkish, Elizabeth and Zenobia has been described as ‘Eerie and dazzling—a perfect book for a dark and stormy afternoon’ by Kirkus Reviews. Her YA novel, … Read more

GIJS VAN KONINGSVELD is a freelance writer, editor and translator specialising in the fields of design, popular culture and the humanities. He is the founder and director of November Editions, a publishing house dedicated to publishing English-language translations of classic German Expressionist literature. Gijs received an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Amsterdam, … Read more

PAUL SCRATON is a British-born writer and editor, based in Berlin. He is the editor in chief of Elsewhere: A Journal of Place and the author of a number of creative non-fiction books including Ghosts on the Shore: Journeys along Germany’s Baltic coast (Influx Press, 2017) and The Idea of a River: Walking out of … Read more

ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN is the author of the novel Harmless Like You which was a New York Times Editors’ pick. She has received an Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. Other work has appeared in Granta, the Guardian, and The Atlantic.