Matilda Arvidsson was born in 1976. After some years in the Middle East and East Africa, she has now returned to her native Skåne, Sweden, where she is pursuing a doctoral degree in law at Lund University. She has published a number of academic articles, book chapters, and essays on international law, political theology, judicial culture, and Islamic law.

Kinga Broel-Plater was born in Lund, Sweden, to Polish immigrants. Kinga is a native Polish and Swedish speaker, English being her third language. In 2000 she graduated from Lund University with an MSc in Business Administration and Finance and has since been based in London working within the financial sector. She has no previous publishing credits and started writing creatively in autumn 2009. 

Christopher Entzenberg was born in Lund, Sweden, in 1985. He has lived in various places in Sweden, but Malmö has now been his home for more than ten years. He dabbles in various artforms: comics, painting, illustration, and fiction writing. He drew the cover illustration for his father Claes Entzenberg's book "Grounds of Representation," which was published in 2007. Christopher also made a comic strip called "Smälek" for the first issue of the Pekå magazine, which was published online in 2009. He has delivered newspapers in Denmark and is currently employed part-time in a warehouse, handling dairy products. He has studied a number of subjects at university level but has not specialized in anything yet. English is his second language. 

SJ Fowler is a postgraduate student of philosophy and his poetry has been featured in over thirty publications. He edits the Maintenant interview series with contemporary European poets for 3am magazine.  www.sjfowlerpoetry.com

Originally from Ecuador, Mateo Jarrín Cuvi lives in Cyprus where he lectures in sociology and anthropology. He obtained an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of California San Diego, having completed research on Protestantism, ethnicity and politics. English is his second language and he has published stories in the Cypriot journals Cadences and ARTERI. 

Antonio Mele is a native Italian speaker, and English is his second language. Since he moved to Sweden a few years ago he has studied modern languages at Malmö University and Lund University. He says that he inherited his passion for writing and telling stories from his grandmother. 

Emelie Nyman was born in Lund, Sweden and has managed to move as far as to Malmö (about 10 kilometers). She is currently in the English Studies Program at Malmö University and has been published previously in Shipwrights.

E. O'Riley is a native English speaker who holds the passports of two countries, a white belt in taekwondo, and a grudge against Leonardo DeCaprio. She is currently procrastinating.

Lucas Skalleberg is half American, half Swedish. He grew up in northern Skåne and is now living in Malmö, juggling poetry, music, photography, and carpentry. He is mesmerized by the power of language and by mankind’s great ability to use it self-deceptively.

Charlotte Webb has dual Australian-British citizenship but was born and raised down under. She has a masters degree in English literature from Lund University and has resided in Sweden since 2003. She currently lives in Malmö.