John Freeman is author of How to Read a Novelist and editor of Freeman's, a literary biannual. His other books include The Tyranny of E-mail and Tales of Two Cities. Former editor of Granta, he lives in New York now and teaches at the New School. His work has been translated into twenty languages.

Francisco Goldman is a novelist and journalist. He spends most of his year in Mexico City, and one semester a year teaching at Trinity College in Hartford. Currently, he is working on a novel and reporting regularly on Mexico for the New Yorker Online.

Helen Macdonald is a writer, naturalist, poet, and historian of science. Her New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling memoir of grief and falconry, H is for Hawk, won the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize and was 2014 Costa Book of the Year.