Dr Ariel Kahn is a novelist and Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Middlesex University, where he runs the Creative Writing and Drama programmes. His novel, Raising Sparks, was shortlisted for The Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize. He is an Affiliated Artist with the Woolf Interfaith Institute at Cambridge University, and writes on Jewish artists from a feminist perspective.

Rutu Modan is an Israeli Illustrator, comics artist and Professor at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem.