In 1951 Anu Kaipiainen graduated from Kallio Co-Educational High School in Helsinki. In 1955 she graduated with a Master's Degree in Philosophy from the University of Helsinki. After university studie…
Margaret Atwood was born in 1939 in Ottawa and grew up in northern Ontario, Quebec, and Toronto. She received her undergraduate degree from Victoria College at the University of Toronto and her master…
Deborah Levy trained at Dartington College of Arts leaving in 1981 to write a number of plays, highly acclaimed for their "intellectual rigour, poetic fantasy and visual imagination", including PAX, H…
Caitlin Moran had literally no friends in 1990, and so had plenty of time to write her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of fifteen. At sixteen she joined music weekly, Melody Maker, an…
Eeva Kilpi comes from eastern Karelia, east of Finland's present-day border with Russia, studied English philology at the University of Helsinki, and worked…
Johanna Holmström, född 1981, är uppvuxen i Sibbo men bor numera i Helsingfors. Hon debuterade år 2003 med novellsamlingen Inlåst och andra noveller som nominerades till Sveriges Radios novellpris. Me…
Laura Mauro was born and raised in London and now lives in Oxfordshire. Their short story 'Looking for Laika' won the British Fantasy award for Best Short Fiction in 2018, and 'Sun Dogs' was shortlist…
Siri was born in 1971, under the northern lights of Norway, with a severely overactive imagination. It survived countless attacks from the outside world, rendering her an expert escapist, frolicking i…
Maja Lunde is a Norwegian author and screenwriter. Lunde has written ten books for children and young adults. She has also written scripts for Norwegian television, including for the children’s series…
Mikko Kamula on Tampereella asuva kansanperinteen tutkija ja harrastaja. Hän on opiskellut folkloristiikkaa, kansantiedettä ja historiaa Turun yliopistossa ja työskennellyt kulttuuriperinnön erikoissu…
Riko Saatsi (s. 1978) on Lieksasta kotoisin oleva ohjaaja, dramaturgi ja ohjaajantaiteen lehtori. Hän on opiskellut filosofiaa Helsingin yliopistossa ja ohjausta Teatterikorkeakoulussa ja työskennelly…
Lisa Ridzén (b.1988) is a doctoral student in sociology, researching masculinity norms in the rural communities of the Swedish far north, where she herself was raised and now lives in a small village …
