Carys Bray

Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of seven books including her most recent novel Mr Loverman (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin-Random House 2013).

Carys Bray is the author of a collection of short stories Sweet Home and two novels A Song for Issy Bradley which was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards and The Museum of You.

D. W. Wilson is a short story writer novelist Canadian citizen by birth and temperament video game nerd teacher and redneck - among other things. He is currently between books but his previous works are a short story collection Once You Break a Knuckle and Ballistics a novel.

Donal Ryan was born in Tipperary in 1976; he's a novelist short-story writer and Fellow of the University of Limerick.

Grace McCleen studied English Literature at Oxford and York Universities. She has written three critically acclaimed novels and reviews fiction for national newspapers.

Nikesh Shukla is the author of Coconut Unlimited Meatspace and The Time Machine the editor of the collection The Good Immigrant and a sitcom writer.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of the novel Harmless Like You and her short work has appeared in among other places the Harvard Review TriQuarterly and NPR's Selected Shorts.

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You, Starling Days and The Sleep Watcher. She has won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award and been shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. Her work has been a New York Times Editors' Choice and an NPR Great Read. Rowan was the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Hedgebrook, the Asian American Writers' Workshop, Gladstone's Library and Kundiman. Her writing has appeared in Granta, The Paris Review and The Atlantic among other places.

Berna Evaristo