Anna Kazumi Stahl is a fiction writer based in Argentina. She holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on transnational (East-West) identities in South American, U.S. and German literatures. Her current research explores South-South and East Asian-South American transnational cultural expressions in literature and visual media.

Clarence Walden is a member of the Gangalidda nation of the Gulf of Carpentaria. He was the Mayor of Doomadgee for many years.

Mariana Dimópulos is an Argentinian writer and translator. She has published three novels, many short stories and recently an essay on the German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin.

Samanta Schweblin is the author of the novel, Fever Dream, a finalist for the Man Booker International and her first book translated into English.

Pedro Mairal’s 2015 collection of columns and essays, Maniobras de evasión, examines his own writing life, both in Buenos Aires and as a frequent traveller.