Karoline Kan writes about China for Index on Censorship magazine. She is an editor at China Dialogue and her first work of non-fiction Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss and Hope in China was published in March 2019

Michal Hvorecký is a Slovakian novelist and short story writer. His latest novel Troll was published in 2017 in Slovakian. His books have been translated into eleven languages. He is based in Bratislava, Slovakia