Bob Stanley
Bob Stanley is a writer, musician, DJ and film producer. Since founding pop group Saint Etienne, Bob has enjoyed a parallel career as a music journalist, contributing to publications such as The Times, Smash Hits and the Face. Image © Alasdair McLellan
Rutu Modan
Rutu Modan is an Israeli Illustrator, comics artist and Professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem.
Ayisha Malik
Ayisha Malik is the author of critically acclaimed novels Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, The Other Half of Happiness, This Green and Pleasant Land and The Movement. She was a WHSmith Fresh Talent Pick and Sofia Khan was a London CityReads choice.
James Sorene
James Sorene is a regular commentator on Israel and Middle East issues on TV and radio.
Ian Black
Ian Black was Middle East editor of the Guardian until 2016. He was also Jerusalem Correspondent, Diplomatic Editor, European Editor and Chief Foreign Editorial Writer, covering major events in the Middle East, from the Iran-Iraq War to the Palestinian Intifadas and the uprisings of the Arab Spring. Photo © Polly Hancock
Alice Shalvi
Alice Shalvi was an educator, feminist activist, social advocate and professor emerita of English literature. She was the recipient of numerous awards, including honorary degrees from the Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben Gurion University of the Negev. In 2007 she was awarded the Israel Prize for Lifetime Achievement. Image © Joan Roth
Sarah Fairbairn
Sarah Fairbairn has directed the Genesis Emerging Writers Programme and other projects at the Jewish Literary Foundation for over a decade. A former editorial manager at Ian Fleming Publications, she’s also a reviewer, mentor, and three-time judge for the CWA Steel Dagger Award. Sarah is passionate about nurturing new literary talent and supporting emerging voices.
Ros Schwartz
Ros Schwartz is a translator from French of fiction and non-fiction. In 2009 she was made a Chevalier d’Honneur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
Peter Filkins
Peter Filkins is the translator of H.G. Adler’s trio of Holocaust novels and the author of Adler’s authorized biography, H.G. Adler: A Life in Many Worlds. He teaches at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
Anna Blasiak
Anna Blasiak is a poet, translator and literature coordinator of the European Literature Network. She has recently co-translated Renia’s Diary by Renia Spiegel.
Boris Dralyuk
Boris Dralyuk’s poems, translations, and essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, Granta, and elsewhere. His collection My Hollywood and Other Poems was published by Paul Dry Books in 2022.
Bryan Karetnyk
Bryan Karetnyk is an award-winning British writer, critic and translator. He is the editor and principal translator of the landmark Penguin Classics anthology Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and the Financial Times.