JOY C. MITCHELL is a screenwriter, journalist, and story consultant with an MFA in Creative Writing & Screenwriting from Emerson College. Previously, she studied journalism and screenwriting at USC. A Los Angeles native, she’s worked in TV development and production at NBCUniversal’s Syfy and Universal Cable Productions, the USA Network’s studio, where she provided story … Read more
KENNY FRIES is the author of The History of My Shoes and the Evolution of Darwin’s Theory (Carroll and Graf), which received the Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights), and Body, Remember: A Memoir (Dutton), as well as the editor of Staring Back: The Disability … Read more
KRISTEN HARRISON taught production and print management in her native Melbourne, before moving to London in 2004 to work in Penguin’s production and editorial departments. In 2011, she founded The Curved House. Described by the UK Bookseller as “the ultimate hybrid company”, The Curved House produces books, websites and videos for publishers and book-related business … Read more
ZACK ROCK is an American picture book author/artist and newly christened Berliner. His first title, Homer Henry Hudson’s Curio Museum, hit bookshelves August this year. Kirkus Review wrote of the book, “Hudson claims, ‘Everything has a story.’ And through his personal descriptions and musings over each artifact, he knows how to tell a good one.” … Read more
KIMBERLY BRADLEY has been a journalist and editor since the 1990s. Born in California and raised in the American midwest, she has straddled the pond for nearly two decades and currently lives and works in Berlin and Vienna. Bradley’s articles have appeared in publications including AD, Art Agenda, artnet.com, ArtReview, Bloomberg Businessweek, Conde Nast Traveller, … Read more
REBECCA RUKEYSER is the recipient of a 2018 Grant for Non-German Literature, awarded by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe. She holds an MFA (Fiction) from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa and Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf. She’s a member of the guest faculty at Bard College … Read more
NICK MAKOHA’s first full-length collection ‘Kingdom of Gravity’ was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Prize for best first collection (Forward Prizes for Poetry) and he was the 2015 winner of the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. He toured the UK with his solo show My Father & Other Superheroes. His advice to young poets is … Read more
MATHILDE RAMADIERis from Southern France and now lives between Berlin and Arles. After a first degree as a graphic designer, she went on to study æsthetics and psychoanalysis at the University Paris VIII and obtained an MA in contemporary philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure. Since 2012, she works as a writer, scriptwriter, and translator … Read more
RACHAEL ALLEN’s first collection of poems, KINGDOMLAND, was published by Faber & Faber in 2019. Her collaboration with the painter Marie Jacotey, NIGHTS OF POOR SLEEP, was published as a co-authored artists’ book in 2017 by Test Centre. Rachael is poetry editor at GRANTA and co-founder of poetry press clinic and online journal TENDER. She is the recipient of a Northern Writers’ … Read more
