Patricia Bardi is a dance/voice artist, bodywork specialist and somatic movement therapist. Bardi is the originator of Vocal Dance, a practice that frees the voice to be fully alive and vivid in expression and movement. She is the founder and director of the Certification Program in Vocal Dance and Voice Movement Integration Practice, centered in Amsterdam and recognized by ISMETA – International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association. Bardi has toured extensively, teaching and performing at international festivals, universities and theater schools throughout Europe, North America & India. Working many years with voice and text in performance, she frequently collaborates with other dancers, actors, musicians and poets.

Amal Chatterjee, author of Across the Lakes (fiction) and Representations of India, 1740 - 1840 (non-fiction) and short fiction, reviews books for Trouw, teaches fiction at the University of Oxford in England and on courses in Amsterdam and Zurich. His novel was short-listed for the Crossword (India) Best Novel Award in 1998, he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writers Bursary in the same year and short-listed for a Creative Scotland Award in 2001. With Sri Lanka, India, Scotland, England and now Amsterdam involved in his life, he has given up trying to be consistent when asked to supply a "country of origin". Amal is currently working on a collection of Writers on Writing and on a new novel.

David Colmer is an Australian writer and translator, based in Amsterdam. He translates Dutch literature in a range of genres and has won several translation prizes.

Kate Foley is an established prize-winning poet whose fourth collection The Silver Rembrandt was recently 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.

Megan M. Garr is the founder and Editor of Versal. Her poetry and writings have appeared or are forthcoming in Tears in the Fence, Upstairs at Duroc, Southern Poetry Review, Origin, Bordercrossing Berlin, RHINO, St. Petersburg Review, Tuesday and others. She lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands with her partner, artist Shayna Schapp.

Katherine Heiny is an American writer of fictionandpoetry who has been published in The New Yorker and has over a dozen YA books to her name, several of which have appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. She's also an experienced editor with a stint as Editor-in-chief at Columbia: A Magazine of Poetry and Prose under her belt. Katherine has worked as a literary agent at Roberta Pryor Inc., and has taught at some of the world's most prestigious universities including the University of Hartford and Columbia University.

Michele Hutchison is British and has worked in international publishing since 1997. In England she worked at Penguin Books, Weidenfeld & Nicolson and Doubleday where her specialty was books in translation. She currently divides her time between translating from Dutch to English and working as an editor at De Arbeiderspers in Amsterdam. Michele has previously given writing workshops England in Sussex, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford and Harrow for various well known literary organisations and events.

Sarah Ream is a literary editor based in Amsterdam. After her Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Edinburgh, during which time she won the university's Grierson Verse Prize, she worked as an editor for the Scottish publisher Birlinn and Polygon. Her poems and articles have appeared in various publications, including the Guardian website, The List, and V, an anthology of international writing from Edinburgh. In 2008 she moved to the Netherlands. She is central editor of the online magazine Poetry International Web, managing editor of Versal, and a freelance editor of English-language poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

Bonnie J. Rough is an American writer living in Amsterdam, Netherlands with her family. Her memoir, Carrier: Untangling the Danger in My DNA, is forthcoming from Counterpoint in spring 2010. Other work has appeared in MODERN LOVE: 50 True and Extraordinary Tales of Desire, Deceit, and Devotion (Three Rivers Press, 2007), The Best Creative Nonfiction (W.W. Norton, 2007), The Best American Science and Nature Writing (Houghton Mifflin, 2007), as well as magazines, journals, and newspapers including The New York Times, The Sun, The Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, Identity Theory, and Brevity. She holds an MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Most recently, she lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she was a Teaching Artist with The Loft Literary Center, and became the recipient of a Bush Artist Fellowship, a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers, and a Minnesota Arts Board grant. On her blog, The Blue Suitcase, she writes mini-essays about life as an airline family abroad.

Philibert Schogt is a Dutch writer who grew up in Canada and now lives in Amsterdam. His first novel, The Wild Numbers, which he originally wrote in English and then translated into Dutch (De wilde getallen), won him international acclaim, with subsequent translations in German, Greek, Turkish and Korean. His second novel, Daalder, written in Dutch, has also been published in various other languages, including English (Daalder's Chocolates). His most recent novel, Beste reiziger (Dear Traveller), was published in October 2009.

Steve Schwartz was born in New York City, graduated from Indiana University in radio journalism, and has lived in Amsterdam since 1982. From 9:00 to 5:00 he writes journalism, public relations and advertising, and music criticism. From the other 9:00 to 5:00 he writes fiction.