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Somtow is renowned Thai-American musician and fantasy writer. He has written popular novels across Sci-Fi, Horror, and Fantasy genres. Based in Thailand, he currently heads up a cultural centre in Bangkok.

Steinberg is a counter-terrorism expert, formerly working for the German government. His latest volume on Islamic terrorism in Germany is published by Columbia University Press and is titled German Jihad.

Dr Subacchi is research director on International Economics at Chatham House and also writes for the Bloomberg blog. Her book, The People's Money, is out on Columbia University Press.

Professor Summers works for the faculty of Physics and Astronomy at George Mason University. He is an award winning planetary scientist and worked on various space programmes with NASA. Along with James Trefil, Summers co-authored 'Exoplanets', published by Smithsonian Books in Spring 2017. Exoplanets divulges the freshest finds from our final frontier.

Former teacher based in Ayrshire, Talboys is the author of the Shadow of Storm series published by Harper Collins. He is also the author of 8 works of non-fiction, on museum education, drama and spirituality.

Katie Tobin is a writer based in London, completing a PhD at Durham University. Her debut trade proposal is an attempt to build a new cultural history of reproductive rights activism in Britain and Ireland.

Katie also writes exhibition texts and about art, literature, film and culture for publications like the Financial Times, Frieze, The Guardian, MUBI Notebook, the Times Literary Supplement, Tribune and many more. Katie has been shortlisted for the Felicity Bryan Associates New Voices Programme; in 2024 and 2025, she was also longlisted for The Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.

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James Trefil is an American physicist and author of nearly fifty books. He is Professor of Physics at the University of Virginia and Robinson Professor of Physics at George Mason University. His latest volume, Imagined Life (Smithsonian, 2019), co-authored with Michael Summers, is a speculative journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals.

Jules Verne was a French novelist, poet and playwright.

Viola is an acclaimed poet of global provenance, having lived on both sides of the Atlantic and the Equator. Her first novel Jukebox is published by Fahrenheit Press and looks to put London's Clarkenwell on the map of crime fiction. The legendary Benjamin Zephaniah described her as having 'a beautiful, twisted imagination'.

Eoghan Walls is a Northern Irish poet from Derry. He has lived and worked in Ireland, Britain, Germany and Rwanda. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006, and his poetry has been shortlisted for multiple international awards, including the Bridport Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize and the Piggott Prize. He has published the first major translation of Heidegger’s poetical works and currently teaches Creative Writing at Lancaster University. The Gospel of Orla is his debut novel.

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Emily Wells teaches at UC Irvine, and writes for publications including The Los Angeles Review of Books, Vogue, Bookforum, Purple and Flash Art. Emily’s debut A Matter of Appearance is published by Seven Stories Press.

Kate Wickers is a travel writer and journalist widely published in the British and foreign press. Shape of a Boy, a family travel memoir telling of life lessons gleaned from journeying to far-flung places is published by Aurum/Quarto, 2022.

Kyra Wilder worked as a pasta chef at Michelin starred San Francisco restaurant Quince. Her debut novel 'Little Bandaged Days' was published by Picador in 2020, and her follow-up 'Gloss' is published by Les Fugitives.

Lydia Wilkins is an award-winning freelance journalist and editor who specialises in disability and social inequality issues. She is the current editor of Disability Review Magazine, the UK’s largest disability title, as well as writing regularly at The Disabled Feminist on Substack.

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Wilson's career in the British armed forces, the diplomatic service, and global finance have taken him to some of the most important historical moments of the last 50 years, in East Germany, Bosnia, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan. He is now semi-retired and married with one son, 4 chickens, a horse, and a lurcher. 'Hostile Currencies' (The History Press, 2019) is his debut.