Ingrid Carlberg
Ingrid Carlberg is a journalist and author based in Stockholm. She was awarded the investigative journalism award The Golden Spade for her 2008 reportage book The Pill, and was appointed Honorary Doctor of Medicine at Uppsala University in 2009.
Lucy Scholes
Lucy Scholes is a critic based in London. She writes about books, film and art for The Financial Times, The Telegraph, NYR Daily, The New York Times Book Review, Literary Hub and Granta, among other publications.
Elena Lappin
Elena Lappin is a writer and editor. She was born in Moscow, grew up in Prague and Hamburg, and has lived in Israel, Canada, the United States, and – longer than anywhere else – in England. She is the author of Foreign Brides, a collection of stories, The Nose, a novel, and What Language Do I Dream […]
Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill is an award-winning violinisit as well as one of the UK’s leading arts broadcasters and writers, presenting BBC Radio 3 Breakfast, and co-presenting BBC Proms and Young Musician of the Year.
Guy Stagg
Guy Stagg was born in 1988 and grew up in Paris, Heidelberg, Yorkshire and London. His debut, The Crossway, won the Edward Stanford Travel Memoir of the Year 2019 and was a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week’.
Lyn Julius
Lyn Julius was born in the UK and educated at the French Lycée in London and the University of Sussex. The daughter of Jewish refugees from Iraq, she is a journalist and founder of Harif, the UK Association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington […]
Michael Frank
Michael Frank is the author of the memoir The Mighty Franks and the novel What is Missing. His essays, articles, and short stories have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The TLS, among other publications. A recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship, he lives with his family in New York City and Liguria, Italy.
Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman is an English novelist, game writer, and television executive producer. She is best known for her speculative science fiction novel The Power, which won the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2017 and has been adapted into a television series for Amazon Studios.
Nicole Krauss
Nicole Krauss is the author of of the international bestsellers, Forest Dark, Great House, a finalist for the National Book Award and the Orange Prize, and The History of Love, which won the Saroyan Prize for International Literature and France’s Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, and was short-listed for the Orange, Médicis, and Femina prizes.
William Klein
William Klein was an American artist and filmmaker known for his unconventional style of abstract photography depicting city scenes. His works are held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others.
Alan Yentob
Alan Yentob was an English television executive and presenter. He held senior roles at the BBC, including head of music and arts, controller of BBC1, controller of BBC2, and was the corporation’s creative director from 2004 until 2015.
Jane Eisner
Jane Eisner is a widely published journalist who held leadership positions at the Philadelphia Inquirer and The Forward. She is the author of Taking Back the Vote. Eisner lives in New York City. Image © Nancy Adler Photography