Kapka Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands.

She is the author of several poetry collections, numerous travel essays, the novel Villa Pacifica (2011), and the acclaimed memoirs Street Without a Name: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria (2008) and Twelve Minutes of Love: A Tango Story (2011).

She has written for the Sunday Times, the Guardian, Vogue, and 1843 magazine.

Karolina Ramqvist is one of the most influential Swedish writers and feminists of her generation. In 2015 she was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Literary Prize for her novel The White City.

Leila Slimani is the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, which she won for Lullaby.

A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture.

Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.