Lorraine Adams was educated at Princeton and at Columbia University. She won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting and was a staff writer for the Washington Post for eleven years.
Alexander Ahndoril is one of Sweden's most celebrated, dynamic and original younger writers.
Nasrin Alavi spent her formative years in Iran. After attending university in the UK and working in the city of London and academia she returned to her birthplace working for an NGO for a number of years.
Born in Argentina, Laura Alcoba has lived in France since the age of ten. She is now a university lecturer in Paris.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is a leading commentator on race, multiculturalism and human rights.
Arkady Babchenko currently works in Moscow as a journalist on the non-conformist newspaper Novaya Gazeta.