Hila Amit’s writing appeared in Lilith, Jalta, Emrys Journal, The Washington Square Review, The Sycamore Review, Granta, and several prominent Israeli literary magazines. Her short story collection, Moving on From Bliss (2016), was awarded the Israeli Ministry of Culture Prize for Debut Authors. Her non-fiction book, A Queer Way Out – The Politics of Queer Emigration from Israel (SUNY Press, 2018), was awarded the AMES Book Award for 2019. In 2020, she published the queer feminist Hebrew learning book Hebrew for All (Münster: edition assemblage). Her novel, The Town Below, was published in Hebrew (Tel Aviv: Am-Oved) in 2022. She is a recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Vermont Studio Center, The Bogliasco Foundation, Ragdale, and was a 2025 Thomas Mann House fellow. She is a member of Die Sammlung, a collective of Jewish writers in Berlin.

Kevin Junk (he/they), born in 1989, lives in Berlin as a writer, editor and freelance author. He studied Japanese studies and literature in Trier, Berlin and Kyoto. In 2022, he received a research grant from the Berlin Senate. His novels ‘Fromme Wölfe’ (2021) and ‘Saturns Sommer’ (2023) as well as the poetry collection ‘RE: re: AW: Liebe’ (2022) were published by Querverlag and Verlagshaus Berlin. In his texts, he deals with contemporary culture, identity and healing processes. As an editor, he initiated ‘Parabolis Virtualis. Neue, queere Lyrik’ (Querverlag), the first queer poetry anthology series in the German-speaking world. His texts have appeared in Glitter, Allmende and Fixpoetry, among others.

Tamar Raphael is an Israeli writer based in Berlin. Her debut novel, There Were Two with Nothing to Do (2024), received rave reviews and an honorable mention from the Brener Award for debut fiction. Her poetry collection, Receding Songs (2021), received the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Poets and her poems and short stories have appeared in a range of literary magazines and journals. She is a MacDowell fellow and a member of Die Sammlung - a collective for Jewish writers in Berlin.

Tomer Dotan-Dreyfus, born in 1987, is an author, poet and translator. He studied Comparative Literature and Philosophy in BA and MA at the Free University of Berlin, as well as at the University of Vienna and Paris VIII. His first book was published by Gans Verlag in 2022 and was a literary analysis of the letter O in various works. His debut novel Birobidschan was published by Voland & Quist in 2023 and was nominated for the German Book Prize in the same year. In 2025 he published his essayistic nonfiction Keinheimisch by Ullstein Verlag. He writes as a freelance author for various newspapers, including Freitag, taz, and Süddeutsche Zeitung.