Joyce Carol Oates, born in 1938 in Lockport, New York, is a writer, essayist, and academic. The author of an extensive body of work including novels, short stories, essays, and poetry, she has published titles such as Them (National Book Award, 1970), Blonde, We Were the Mulvaneys and The Falls.
Katie Kitamura, born in 1979 in Sacramento, California, is a writer and academic. She debuted with the novel The Longshot (2009), followed by Gone to the Forest and A Separation (2017), a finalist for the Folio Prize.
Olivier Guez, born in Strasbourg in 1974, is a French writer and journalist. He has contributed to Le Monde, The New York Times, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. He is the author of La scomparsa di Josef Mengele, winner of the Prix Renaudot.
