Gavin Schaffer
Gavin Schaffer is Professor of Modern British History at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on race, ethnicity and immigrant histories and regularly contributes to television and radio.
Yishay Ishi Ron
Yishay Ishi Ron is an Israeli author, a former elite combat soldier, and a survivor of severe PTSD. Writing has been an essential part of his healing journey, enabling him to channel deeply personal experiences into his work. His novel, Dog, is a powerful work of literary fiction that delves into trauma, resilience, and redemption and […]
Yardenne Greenspan
Yardenne Greenspan is a fiction writer and translator, born in Tel Aviv to a bilingual family. She has an MFA in fiction and literary translation from Columbia University. Her translation projects include works by Israeli authors Shemi Zarhin, Yitzhak Gormezano-Goren, Shimon Adaf, Yishai Sarid, and Yishay Ishi Ron.
Daniel Schwammenthal
Daniel Schwammenthal is the editor of The Jewish Chronicle. Before joining the JC in February 2025, he headed the American Jewish Committee’s EU office in Brussels. He previously served as an editorial writer and op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal Europe in Brussels and Amsterdam, and earlier worked as a correspondent for Dow Jones Newswires […]
Sean Gilbert
Sean Gilbert studied English at The University of Cambridge before pursuing the Creative Writing Master’s at UEA. He is a graduate of the Jewish Literary Foundation’s Genesis Emerging Writers Programme and the Penguin Write Now Emerging Writers programme. His non-fiction has appeared in Time Out, Metro, Clash, Theatre Full Stop and The Holborn and his […]
Oriya Mevorach
Oriya Mevorach is a bestselling author, lecturer on Judaism and philosophy, and the editor-in-chief of Maggid Books (Hebrew division). One Day in October, co-authored with Yair Agmon, brings together gripping firsthand accounts from heroes of October 7th, 2023. A searing, unforgettable, yet ultimately healing collection, it immediately became an international bestseller and has been translated […]
Yair Agmon
Yair Agmon is an acclaimed Israeli author, playwright, and screenwriter as well as a columnist for Makor Rishon. He was the recipient of the Hebrew Writers Prize in 2022. One Day in October is his seventh book.
Raffaello Morales
Raffaello Morales, Roman by birth, trained as a classical pianist and as a physicist. He pursued postgraduate studies in Theoretical Physics and holds a PhD in Applied Mathematics from King’s College London. He worked in derivatives risk management for JP Morgan Chase for a number of years and picked up conducting in the same years, also […]
Amos Oz
Amos Oz was an Israeli author of many novels and essay collections, translated into over forty languages, including his semi-autobiographical work, A Tale of Love and Darkness. His last novel, Judas, was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 and won the Yasnaya Polyana Foreign Fiction Award.
Virginia Baily
Virginia Baily holds a PhD and MA in English from the University of Exeter. She founded and co-edits Riptide, a short-story journal. She is also the co-editor of the political series of the Africa Research Bulletin.
Polly Samson
Polly Samson is the author of two short story collections and two previous novels. Her work has been shortlisted for numerous prizes, translated into several languages and has been dramatised on BBC Radio 4. Image © Sarah Lee
Francis Hodgson
Francis Hodgson was professor in the Culture of Photography at the University of Brighton, and was the photography critic for the FT. Image © Anton Corbijn