Amal Chatterjee teaches fiction at the University of Oxford in England and lives in Amsterdam. He is the author of Across the Lakes and has been short-listed for the Crossword (India) Best Novel Award and for the Creative Scotland Awards. His other book is about colonialism and he is currently working on his second novel, short stories and a play.

Originally from Australia, Matthew Curlewis holds certificates in Screenwriting and Script Editing from Amsterdam’s Binger Film Lab, a BA in Cultural Criticism and Performance Studies from New York University, and is certified as a workshop leader in the Amherst Writers and Artists Workshop Method. Matthew’s professional work ranges from advertising industry copywriting, to feature article writing for Amsterdam Weekly, to short and feature film writing and script consulting work for international film production companies; most recently on the feature film 'Nadra' for IDTV Film.

Kate Foley is an established prize-winning poet whose fourth collection The Silver Rembrandt has just been published by Shoestring Press (UK). She is one of Versal’s poetry editors. She leads poetry workshops in the UK and Amsterdam and especially likes working alongside artists in other media.

Michele Hutchison is British, studied at UEA, Cambridge and Lyon and has worked in international publishing since 1997. In England she was trained at Penguin Books and went on to work as commissioning editor at Weidenfeld & Nicolson and later Doubleday. Alongside translating and selling rights, she currently commissions for De Arbeiderspers in Amsterdam.

Sandra Jensen was born in South Africa but is presently based in Ireland. Sandra has written for the theatre; short non-fiction works have appeared in Whole Earth Magazine and Utne Reader; creative non-fiction at VerbSap and Common Ties; fiction at the Dublin Quarterly, r.kv.ry Quarterly, Word Riot, Santa Fe Writers Project and Versal. She has been short-listed for Event's creative non-fiction contest, for This Magazine's 11th Annual Great Canadian Literary Hunt, she is a finalist in Glimmer Train's Family Matters competition, and in the 2007 Santa Fe Writers Project Literary Awards Program. She received the Honourable Mention Award for Fiction in New Millennium Writings, 2007.

Dipika Mukherjee is an academic and creative writer who has taught at universities in the United States, Malaysia, and Singapore for the past 15 years. She earned her PhD in English at Texas A&M University. She has edited two anthologies of short stories titled Silverfish New Writing 6 (Silverfish, 2006) and The Merlion and Hibiscus (Penguin, 2002). Her poetry has been published in the US, UK and Hong Kong, as well as broadcast over Singapore Public Radio, and she was Writer-in-Residence at the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington, from February-March 2003. Her debut novel, On Congenial Soil, is currently being considered for publication.

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