Катерина Стойкова е автор на няколко поетични книги. Най-новите й стихосбирки на български са „Американски деликатеси“ и „Втора кожа“, издадени от ICU. През 2024 г. University Press of Kentucky ще издаде на английски нейната стихосбирка „Между клетка за птици и къща за птици“. Книгите на Катерина са носители на националните награди „Дъбът на Пенчо“, „Иван Николов“ и „Ваня Константинова“. Катерина е собственик и главен редактор на американското издателство Accents Publishing, където е редактирала и публикувала близо сто книги, повечето от които поезия. Нейни стихове са номинирани за наградите Pushcart, Best of the Net, Discovery Award и други. През издателството си Катерина редовно преподава дългосрочни и краткосрочни работилници по поезия на ученици от различни нива. Също преподава и в Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning.

Kapka Kassabova was born and raised in Sofia, Bulgaria in the 1970s and 1980s. Her family emigrated to New Zealand just after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and she spent her late teens and twenties in New Zealand where she studied French Literature, and published two poetry collections and the Commonwealth-Writers Prize-winner for debut fiction in Asia-Pacific, Reconnaissance. In 2004, Kapka moved to Scotland and published Street Without a Name (Portobello, 2008). It is a story of the last Communist childhood and a journey across post-communist Bulgaria. It was short-listed for the Dolman Travel Book Award. The music memoir Twelve Minutes of Love (Portobello 2011), a tale of Argentine tango, obsession and the search for home, was short-listed for the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book Awards. Villa Pacifica (Alma Books 2011), a novel with an equatorial setting, came out at the same time. Border: a journey to the edge of Europe (2017 Granta/ Greywolf) is an exploration of Europe's remotest border region. Her essays and articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Times Literary Supplement, Vogue, The Sunday Times, The Scottish Review of Books, The NZ Listener, The New Statesman, and 1843 Magazine.

Born in Malta, Pierre J. Mejlak has been writing novels and short stories since he was young. He is published by Merlin Publishers. Mejlak has written books for children, adaptations, a novel and two collections of short stories, winning numerous awards, including five National Book Awards, the Commonwealth Essay Writing Award and the Sea of Words European Short Story Award. His first collection of short stories for adults, Qed Nistenniek Niezla max-Xita (I'm waiting for you to fall with the rain) was published to critical and popular acclaim in February 2009. His second collection of short stories, Dak li l-Lejl Ihallik Tghid (what the night lets you say) was published in June 2011. A number of his short stories have been translated into English, French, Catalan, Portuguese, Serbian, Arabic, Spanish, Indonesian and Italian and were read at numerous literary festivals around Europe and the Middle East. Mejlak's award-winning novel Rih Isfel (southern wind) has been turned into a 13-episode prime-time TV series for Malta's NET TV. Two times winner of the Malta Journalism Award, Pierre J. Mejlak worked as a journalist from 1999 to 2005. He was a BBC correspondent, a regular columnist for Malta's daily In-Nazzjon and produced radio shows - including 60 one-hour documentaries on rock legends - for various national radio stations. From an early age, Pierre J. Mejlak published a number of magazines, including his very-own monthly magazine Il-Fwieha tan-Narcisa, which he wrote, edited and published from January 1996 to December 2000. In 2004 he left Malta to Brussels, where he still lives.

Georgi Gospodinov is a writer, poet and playwright based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He studied Bulgarian Philology at Sofia University. Later he defended a PhD on New Bulgarian literature with the Bulgaria Academy of Science's Institute for Literature. He is one of the most translated Bulgarian authors after 1989. He published the first Bulgarian graphic novel The Eternal Fly (Вечната муха). Profile in Bulgarian: Георги Господинов.

Rana Dasgupta is a British-Indian writer. He grew up in Cambridge, England and studied at Balliol College, Oxford, the Conservatoire Darius Milhaud in Aix-en-Provence, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He lives in Delhi, India. His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled (2005), was an examination of the forces and experiences of globalization. Billed as a modern-day Canterbury Tales, thirteen passengers stuck overnight in an airport tell thirteen stories from different cities in the world, stories that resemble contemporary fairytales, mythic and surreal. The tales add up to a broad exploration of 21st century forms of life, which includes billionaires, film stars, migrant labourers, illegal immigrants and sailors. [1] Tokyo Cancelled was shortlisted for the 2005 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Dasgupta's second novel, Solo (2009) is an epic tale of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries told from the perspective of a one hundred-year old Bulgarian man. Having achieved little in his twentieth-century life, he settles into a long and prophetic daydream of the twenty-first century, where all the ideological experiments of the old century are over, and a collection of startling characters - demons and angels - live a life beyond utopia.

Babak Salari is a documentary photographer and cultural activist. Originally from Iran, he has been living in exile in Canada for the past almost 30 years. He has created several bodies of work exploring the double consciousness of otherness, marginality and diasporic identity. His work is sensitive and probing. Because of his own experience as an outsider, he strongly identifies with his subjects. Their trust and acceptance allows him access to parts of their lives normally hidden to outsiders. His work ranges from social tableaux to portraits of individuals and has taken him to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, Kurdistan, Palestine, Israel, Mexico and Cuba. He has worked with Medicines du Monde using photography as a tool to bear witness to the aftermath of the war in Afghanistan and the occupation of Iraq and its daily effects in people's lives particularly the environment, children and women. Babak's many diverse photo documentary projects include: portraits of Iranian exiles living in Canada, a series on the power of women and gay men in a matriarchal community in Mexico and a project on the lived experience of women wearing the hijab (Islamic practice of veiling). His photo documentary of the public practice of queer eroticism in Cuba was described by Tom Waugh, curator, critic and Chairman of the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University as an "unprecedented glimpse of a marginal sexual community in a society about which we probably have many misconceptions-in all its dignity, tenderness, humour, style and diversity as well as the more mundane texture of its everyday life." Educated at Concordia University and Dawson Institute of Photography, Babak has been acclaimed for his high degree of technical and artistic accomplishment. He has worked as an instructor of black and white and documentary photography at Dawson College and his work has been published in magazines and journals, privately collected and exhibited in Canada, USA, Europe and Mexico.