Ella Bartlett is an Iowan-born, New York-educated, Paris-based writer and translator. The recipient of the Gigantic Sequins Poetry Award of 2021, judged by Arisa White, Ella’s work has been published, among others, in Jet Fuel Review, Asymptote, ANMLY, Necessary Fiction, and Rust + Moth. Their debut translation, a collection of poetry by opera singer Elodie Kimmel, was published in May 2022.

Alex Brook Lynn is a multi-disciplinary artist, journalist, and storyteller. She worked in the pit of local news and city policy reporting in New York City for most of her career. She has created installation works dealing with the nature of stories and the images they conjure up. She has been published by Vice, The Daily Beast, The New York Daily News, and most recently she was published in New York Magazine with an essay about her brother and how punishing a city can be for the mentally ill. Alex has moved to Paris with her husband and son in search of a better life and a better city.

Samuel Hawkins is a Tipperary native who has lived on and off in Paris for five years. A Criminal Justice graduate, he abandoned his career path in 2017 for love and literature and dedicated himself to his lifelong passion, writing. Since then he has written an autobiography, written and acted in several plays in Galway, Ireland and is currently working on his first novel. His artistic influences are Tolstoy and Van Gogh, with the pursuit of authenticity and truth being central to his efforts.

Seb Jones is an English writer and poet currently living in Europe. Working primarily in prose poetry, his writing is a departure from traditional form and accepted practice. Shifting tense, non standard usage and unflinching examinations of the human animal are all employed to paint disarmingly vivid pictures of lived experience. A life of 'poor choices made in interesting places', has left Jones speaking snatches of various languages and carrying manila folders full of "an unpublishable private literature that goes fourteen hundred mph."