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David Cox

Dr David Cox is a specialist health and medical journalist. He has a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Cambridge, and has covered all aspects of healthcare over the past decade, with a particular focus on nutrition and the ongoing revolution in ageing science. He writes regularly for newspapers, broadcasters and scientific journals around the world including The Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC, The Times, WIRED and NBC News to the British Medical Journal. His work is often discussed on TV and radio programmes around the world, and he has been shortlisted 14 times for various journalism awards.

Hannah Lillith Assadi

Hannah Lillith Assadi is the author of The Stars Are Not Yet Bells and Sonora, which received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction. She is a National Book Foundation 5 under 35 honouree and teaches fiction at the Columbia University School of the Arts and the Pratt Institute. Raised in Arizona, she lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Ann Packer

Ann Packer is the author of two short story collections and three novels, including the international bestseller The Dive from Clausen’s Pier, which received the Kate Chopin Literary Award, among many other prizes and honours. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry Prize Stories anthologies, and her work has been translated into over a dozen languages. She lives between New York, the Bay Area and Maine.

Catherine Cho

Catherine Cho is the author of the memoir Inferno, which was shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize. She was a finalist for the 2020 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Devoted is her debut novel.

Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser is the author of Sontag: Her Life and Work which won the Pulitzer Prize and Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. For his work bringing Clarice Lispector to international prominence, he received Brazil’s first State Prize for Cultural Diplomacy.

Ella Risbridger

Ella Risbridger is a writer and journalist from London. With bylines in the Financial Times, Guardian, Observer, Vogue & many others, her books span from cookery to picture books, poetry to essay collections. Her best-selling debut, Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For), won Cookbook of the Year at the Guild of Food Writers Awards, and was named a book of the year in multiple publications on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Sunday Times, New York Times, Daily Mail and Washington Post. She was described by the Times as “the most talented writer of a generation”, which is nice. Ella is also the creator of You Get In Love And Then…?, a best-selling newsletter with thousands of paid subscribers; an amateur painter, potter, and candlestick maker; and the part-owner of one very fat orange cat.

Missouri Williams

Missouri Williams is the author of The Doloriad, which won the 2023 Republic of Consciousness Prize and was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Her work has appeared in The Nation, The Baffler,The Believer, Granta, and The Drift.

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