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Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative … Continued

Alia Trabucco Zerán was born in Chile in 1983. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship for her MFA in Creative Writing at New York University and she holds a PhD in Spanish and Latin American Studies from University College London. Her debut novel, The Remainder was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2019. Her non-fiction title, When Women Kill won the British Academy Book Prize 2022 and was shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Criticism Award, and film rights have been sold. Her latest novel, Clean, is being translated into 15 languages. She won the Eccles Centre & Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2024 for her next project. She lives in Santiago.

Bill Zehme is the author of the New York Times bestseller, ‘The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin’. His celebrity profiles have appeared in ‘Esquire, Rolling Stone’ and ‘Playboy’, among others. During six years of research for ‘Lost in the Funhouse’ he worked on both ‘Taxi: A Celebration’ and ‘A Comedy Salute to Andy Kaufman’. He lives in Chicago.

Keith and Kent Zimmerman are twins. They are the co-authors of the bestselling ‘Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’, the autobiography of John Lydon.

Keith and Kent Zimmerman are twins. They are the co-authors of the bestselling ‘Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs’, the autobiography of John Lydon.

Nell Zink was born in 1964 in southern California and grew up in rural Virginia. She attended Stuart Hall School and the College of William and Mary, where she majored in philosophy. Rather late in life she got a doctorate in Media Studies from the University of Tübingen, Germany. She works as a translator for Zeitenspiegel Reportagen and lives in Bad Belzig, south of Berlin.