Harvey Pekar is an American underground comic book writer best known for his autobiographical 'American Splendor' series which inspired a critically acclaimed film adaptation of the same name.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of High Cotton and is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books.
Christopher Hedges is the author of 'War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning'. He is a journalist, author, and Pulitzer prize-winning war correspondent.
Susan Griffin is the author of many books, including 'Woman and Nature', 'Pornography and Silence', and 'A Chorus of Stones: the Private Life of War'.
Billy Bang (William Vincent Walker) is a renowned free jazz violinist and composer.
Lydia Stryk is the author of fifteen full-length plays and a few short ones. She grew up between DeKalb and London, England.
Margarita Shalina was born in Leningrad and raised on New York's Lower East Side. She was a contributing translator to Contemporary Russian Poetry (Dalkey Archive Press).
Keith Gessen was born in Moscow and is now the co-editor-in-chief of N+1 in NYC.
Noam Gonick is a Canadian filmmaker, artist, and screenwriter. He lives in Winnipeg.
Alistair Noon has translated from German (inc. August Stramm, Monika Rinck), Russian (Pushkin, Mayakovsky) and Chinese (Du Fu, Xiao Kaiyu). His own poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies from Chicago to Tokyo and Alistair currently runs the Poetry Hearings festival in Berlin.
Erich Christiansen teaches philosophy at John Jay College in New York City. He has been performing poetry and prose, with and without musicians, for 20 years. He is currently co-editing the upcoming issue of Tribes magazine
Michelle Thorne is a free culture advocate and digital commentator. She's based in Berlin, Germany.
Jeremy Danneman is a Brooklyn based saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer. He is the founder of Parade of One, Inc. a company which takes far-fetched, absurd, and naive musical projects extremely seriously. He appears regularly with Mysterium and El Pueblo. Joel H. Vega is a medical news writer and editor living in the Netherlands. His poems have appeared in Philippine and US poetry journals such as Disquieting Muses Review,Versal, Vespertine and the Poetry Salzburg Review.
Adam Green is originally from Manchester and now lives in Berlin. Adam spends most of his time writing, making pictures from old photographs and listening to the very excellent Berliner Rundfunk.
Clare Saponia has been published in The Recusant, The Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Square, Inclement, Platform and in Pure Poetry as guest poet. She has lived predominantly abroad since 1998, including a recent four year stint in an artists’ commune in Berlin.
Sean Williams is an artist based in Philadelphia and Berlin.
Elizabeth Royte is the author of Bottlemania and Garbage Land. She has written for the New Yorker, Harpers, and National Geographic magazines among others.
Raphaël Enthoven is a philosopher, author, and radio and television host in Paris, France. Earl Barnes is a street poet in Savannah, Georgia. Hamadou Tidiane SY is a freelance journalist, based in Dakar Senegal. Tim Robbins is an American actor (Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River) and director of Dead Man Walking. Clement Rosset is a French philosopher. Stone Gossard plays guitar and writes music for the bands Pearl Jam and Brad. Homi Bhabha is an Indian-American post-colonial theorist at Harvard University. Amiri Baraka is a poet, playwright and activist.
Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and author of Programming the Universe. Jaqueline Goss is a video artist who teaches at Bard College in NY. Brandon Boyd sings in the band Incubus and is the author of From the Murks of the Sultry Abyss Arianna Meadowlark is an activist living in the Czech Republic.
Feryal Ali Gauhar is a writer, actress and filmmmaker from Pakistan who was appointed UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador for her country in 1999 Stephen Post is a Bioethics Professor at Case Western University. MA Shumin is a filmmaker and writer currently working for NPR's Science Friday. Charity Scribner is the author of Requiem for Communism. Joel Schalit is a writer, editor and Israeli-American pundit based in San Francisco. Adam Raymont is an artist living in Berlin. Franco Moretti is a daring literary critic and professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto. Dubravka Ugresic is the author of Nobody's Home and The Ministry of Pain among others. She lives in Amsterdam. Coleman Barks is a poet and Rumi translator from Athens, GA. Marco Bruzone is an Italian artist. Ann Van Poperingen is a graphic designer living in Berlin Johan Fornäs is Chair of the Advanced Cultural Studies Institute of Sweden Simon Goldhill is the author of Love, Sex, and Tragedy Lisa Fitzhugh is the founder of ArtsCorps in Seattle, Washington The Kitchen is a non-profit, interdisciplinary organization that provides innovative artists working in the media, literary, and performing arts with exhibition and performance opportunities to create and present new work.
Shannon Fitzpatrick's most recent study involved the intersection between politics, gender studies, and art history. She lives in California.
Mark Donfried is the founder of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy Paul Sarazin is the author of Fremde Heimat Deutschland Ji Lee is a designer in nyc and founder of The Bubble Project Clarina Bezzola is an artist from Switzerland. Jeffrey Gedmin is the president of Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty. Kim Cascone is the founder of Silent Records. Eivind Nesterud is an artist living in Oslo. Jan Caspers lives and works in Ireland where he makes shadow films. Dune Johnson lives and works in Vienna Chang Rae Lee is the author of Native Speaker and Aloft among others. Nick Fowler teaches at New York University and is author of A Thing or Two About Curtis and Camilla. Nicola Gerndt is a graphic designer from Hamburg, now living and working in Berlin. Gunilla Jähnichen is an artist living in Cologne, Germany. Anne Applebaum is a journalist whose book Gulag, A History won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Shimaa Aly is an Egyptian translator and interpreter working in Cairo, Egypt. Brendon Dougherty studied music and works as a composer, performer, and improviser in Berlin. Monia Filipe is a writer from Portugal. Allison Gurski is a 5th grade teacher living in the suburbs of Atlanta. She has an MA in Educational Leadership and Technology. Michael T. Klare is professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College. He also writes a column for The Nation. His books include "Resource Wars" and "Blood and Oil". Brad Bassler is an associate professor of Philosophy at The University of GA in Athens. Eric Boyer is a photograper living in New York City. Vera Tollmann coedited the art magayine Starship 7 with Stephanie Wurster. She also works as assistant curator for Transmediale in Berlin. Shreekumar Varma is a novelist and playwright living in Chennai, South India. Volker Wolpert is a photographer living in Berlin. David Butler was born in 1978 on a transatlantic flight at midnight. Ines Lorenzen lives in Göttingen where she is now studying Social Management. Anna Rohleder is a freelance writer and translator whose work has appeared in The New York Times and the Village Voice among others. She now lives in India. Banuta Rubess is a writer and director living in Riga, Latvia. Michele Sala graduated in Industrial Design from the Polytechnic University in Milan where he currently works and lectures in visual communication. Jan Schomburg is a filmmaker from Cologne. Val Tchoukova is an artist from Bulgaria. She now lives in Berlin. Erin Wilson lives in Brisbane, Australia. Her main focus of study is the question of religion and its effect on Western society and politics. Kito Nedo is a journalist from Leipzig. He studied history, media, and cultural studies in Berlin, Leipzig, and London. Anne-Claire Duperrier lives in Paris and Berlin. She graduated from the Sorbonne (in archeology) and l’école du louvre (in history of art), and also has a masters in cultural management from Dauphine. Jeff Fallis is a poet living in Athens, Georgia. you will probably want to read more of his poetry so look for him in the Oxford American and the Indian Review. Derek Lam is an independent filmmaker, critic and teacher in Hong Kong. Jude Webre is a freelance writer and musician from texas. he now lives in NYC where he studies at Columbia and plays bass for Dimestore-Danceband and The Places. Dariusz Radtke was born in Poland but has been living in Germany since 1987. He is the creator of Forum 46. Alexander Sologubov was born in Kaliningrad, Russia in 1973. he teaches philosophy, physics, and logic at Kaliningrad University. Cosima Lemke is a teacher and artist from Germany. Monika Schmalz is a translator and writer from Berlin. Karen Lillis was born in Washington, D.C during the Vietnam War. she moved seven times before she was seven years old. Now a writer in Philadelphia, her best known novel is I, Scorpion. Paul Mccormick is a writer from Toronto. Phillip Stone is a poet and writer from England. His second home is Chengdu, China. ...
Brant Fulton was born in Baltimore, Maryland where he spent his first night listening to the 1st violinist of the Baltimore Szmphony Orchestra serenading the maternity ward.