Joanna Hershon’s new novel, A Dual Inheritance, is just out from Random House. The novel is also available as an audiobook, read aloud by Hershon herself. Visit her Pinterest board about the book. She is the author of three other novels: Swimming, The Outside of August and The German Bride. Her writing has been… Read more »

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  Roland Satterwhite was born in Canada. When he was 5 his family smuggled their cat across the border and moved to Seattle, where he started learning the violin. After college, he moved to New York city to work as a biologist only to fall hopelessly in love with Cuban music which changed the course of his… Read more »

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Sarah Blake is the author of the novels, Grange House and The Postmistress, and while living in Berlin 2012-2013 has been working on her third.

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  Gideon Lewis-Kraus has written about books and culture for Harper’s, Wired, the New York Times magazine, n+1, McSweeney’s, the London Review of Books, and other magazines and newspapers. His first book, A Sense of Direction, from which his story is here excerpted, is now out in paperback from Riverhead Books. Watch the trailer here. After… Read more »

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Tasha Walters—an illustrator, writer, and occasional back-up singer—lives in Berlin and currently has no cats.

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Donna Stonecipher is the author of three books of poetry, most recently The Cosmopolitan, which won the National Poetry Series competition and was published by Coffee House Press. She lives in Berlin.

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Natalia Drozdiak is a Belgian-American journalist who has written for Reuters and the German political magazine Cicero. She has a BA in Literature from Bard College, NY and currently lives in Berlin.

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Born in Mumbai and raised in the United States, Sylee Gore has lived in Berlin since 2000. She works at a publishing house and blogs at Berlin Reified.

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  New York-dilettante-turned-Berlin-author Ralph Martin has delighted Germany with his prose stylings since 2009′s EIN AMERIKANER IN BERLIN (not his choice of title). His next book PAPANOIA, about modern German parenting, made him a pariah in Prenzlauer Berg, which is fine since he has since moved to Kreuzberg. He has written for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung… Read more »

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Nerys Hudson moved from London to Berlin in 2009, swapping the world of advertising for publishing in the process. She is now bookseller at Dialogue Books Books and assistant at Berlin-based literary agency Lovegrove and Gosling. Although most of her time is happily dedicated to reading the stories of others, she occasionally writes her own.

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