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Jackie Ess is a writer and teacher.

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.

Ana Schnabl (1985) is a writer and editor. A doctoral student of philosophy, her research focuses on feminist autobiography. She writes for several Slovenian literary journals, has collaborated with the daily Dnevnik and is the first editor of the Versopolis Review. In 2017, her short story collection Disentangling (Razvezani) received the Best Debut Award at the annual Slovenian Book Fair as well as a number of nominations for other awards. So far, she has written two novels, namely The Masterpiece (Mojstrovina) and Tide (Plima), and she is currently working on a collection of novellas about failed (fictional) female artists and a non-fiction book about mushrooms. Her first literary translation, Daisy Johnson's Sisters, was published in 2022. In her spare time, she is a helicopter parent to two dogs and a cat and dreams of having a vegetable garden.

Rawley Grau has been translating literary works from Slovenian for over twenty years, including by such first-rate novelists as Dušan Šarotar, Mojca Kumerdej, Sebastijan Pregelj, and Vlado Žabot. Five of his translations have been longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, while his translations of Šarotar’s Panorama and Billiards at the Hotel Dobray were shortlisted for the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. He has also translated poetry by Miljana Cunta, Miklavž Komelj, Janez Ramoveš, and Tomaž Šalamun, among others. In 2021, he received the prestigious Lavrin Diploma from the Association of Slovenian Literary Translators. Translations from other languages include A Science Not for the Earth: Selected Poems and Letters by the Russian poet Yevgeny Baratynsky, which received the AATSEEL prize for Best Scholarly Translation, and The Long Coming of the Fire, a volume of poems by the modernist Macedonian poet Aco Šopov, which he co-translated with Christina E. Kramer. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he has lived in Ljubljana since the early 2000s.