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Jane DeLynn is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Leash, Don Juan in the Village, and Some Do. Her novel Real Estate was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review, Mademoiselle, Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, the New York Observer and Tikkun, and she lived in Saudi Arabia as a correspondent for Mirabella and Rolling Stone during the Gulf War. She is also the author of three plays, and wrote the libretto for the children's opera The Monkey Opera, composed by Roger Tréfousse, which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She lives in Los Angeles.

Jackie Ess is a writer, cultural mischief-maker and minor internet celebrity. A co-founder of the Bay Area Trans Writers Workshop, her work can be found in Heavy Feather Review, the Zahir, the New Inquiry, Vetch, and the anthology We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics. Darryl is her first novel.

Luce deLire is a ship with eight sails and she lays off the quay. A time traveller and collector of mediocre jokes by day, when night falls, she turns into a philosopher, performer and media theorist. She loves visual art, installations, video art, etc. She could be seen curating, performing, directing, planning and publishing (on) various events. She is working on and with the philosophy of treason, infinity, post-secularism, self-destruction, fascism and seduction – all in mixed media.

Henrike Kohpeiß is a philosopher working on social and political philosophy, critical theory, affect studies, black studies and feminist philosophy. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the CRC 'Affective Societies' at Free University, Berlin. Together with Philipp Wüschner, she hosts a monthly conversations on 'Feelings at the end of the world' at Volksbühne Berlin. Occasionally, she engages in artistic collaborations in dance and performance, mostly as a dramaturge or writer, sometimes as a performer. Bourgeois Coldness is her first book.