Born in 1967, French writer and philosopher Bruce Bégout teaches at the University of Bordeaux. He is the author of several works of fiction and numerous essays. Over the past decade, an important part of his work has explored iconic urban and periurban spaces in the United States. Two volumes of his non-fiction work (Zeropolis : The Experience of Las Vegas and Common Place : The American Motel) have appeared in English translation.

María do Cebreiro was born in 1976. She is the author of several books of poetry -including I Am Not From Here, translated into English - as well as of scholarly work on Galician literature. She teaches literary theory at the University of Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia.

Barcelona-based Álex Chico, born in 1980, is the author of several volumes of poetry and has contributed articles of literary criticism to a large number of Spanish-language publications.

Greek author, translator and photographer Christos Chryssopoulos, born in 1968, has received several awards, both in Greece and internationally, for his fiction and non-fiction works. A graduate of the Iowa International Writers Program, he teaches creative writing in Athens and is the founder and director of DASEIN, Athens InternaTional Literary Festival.

Ginés S. Cutillas, born in 1973, is one of the most prominent exponents of the microrelato, the Spanish term for flash fiction. His texts have been included in a various anthologies devoted to the genre. He is also a noted literary critic.

Ukrainian poet Taras Fedirko is currently a PhD student in social anthropology at Durham University. He has published articles in English on contemporary Ukrainian politics and is the co-editor of Prostory, a literary magazine published in Kyiv.

Born in 1968, Spanish writer José Antonio Francés is the author of two novels, several volumes of short stories, and of a large number of works for young readers.

Eiríkur Örn Norðdahl, born in 1978, is a prolific poet and novelist from Iceland. His work has received several awards in his home country. He is also known for his poetic and conceptual performances, as well as for his much-lauded Icelandic translations of, among others, Allen Ginsberg’s poems and Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn. Fist, or Crazy Words is his sixth book of poetry. Some of Eiríkur’s texts have appeared in English-language literary journals.

Croatian author Marko Pogačar was born in 1984. He studied Comparative Literature and History at the University of Zagreb and collaborates with various literary magazines in Croatia. His poems have been translated into several languages and have appeared in Absinthe in the past.

Spanish writer, literary critic and translator José Antonio Masoliver Ródenas was born in 1939. He has published several novels and short story collections in Castilian, as well as poems in Catalan. He taught creative Spanish and Latin American literature, as well as creative writing in the United Kingdom and in Spain. In the United States, selections from his work were featured in Words Without Borders.

Romanian writer, broadcaster, theatre director, and scholar, Diana Manole has published eight books and won fourteen literary awards. Since immigrating to Canada, her poetry (both translated from Romanian and written directly in English) has appeared in The Nashwaak Review, Maple Tree Literary Supplement, Poem, Lunch Ticket, Third Wednesday, untethered, Grain, among others. Her translations of English and American poetry have been published in several literary magazines in Romania. She teaches at Guelph University and Trent University and resides in Toronto, Ontario.

Daniel Salgado works as a journalist. He is the author of six books of poetry . He has translated Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich into Galician, and is a member of the electronic music group Das Kapital.

Born in 1970, Care Santos lives in Barcelona. She is the author of several novels, short story collections, volumes of poetry, as well as children’s books. Her work has been translated into seven languages and has appeared in Words Without Borders in the United States.

German poet Katharina Schultens was born in 1980 and currently lives in Berlin. She is the author of three volumes of poetry.

Gonçalo M. Tavares, born in 1970, was described by Nobel-Prize laureate José Saramago as the most important Portuguese writer of his generation and is one of the most important voices in contemporary European and world literature. His extremely large body of work has been translated in over 45 countries, including in the United States where the installments of his « Kingdom » series have been particularly well received.