ALBERTO VILLARREAL (Mexico City 1977), is a Theater Author, Director and Creator, as well as a member of the FONCA National System of Art Creators in Mexico. His creative work includes more than forty productions –most from his authorship - ; with a presence in eleven countries.



  Alison Wong is a novelist and poet, now writing a family memoir. In the late 1800s and early 1900s her great grandparents and grandparents on both sides moved back and forth between Guangdong and New Zealand. Alison was born in Hastings and grew up in nearby Napier on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island. After studying at Victoria University of Wellington, she spent 1983 to 1985 on a NZ-China Student Exchange Scholarship at Xiamen University. She worked in IT in Wellington, spent 1994 in Shanghai, then returned to Wellington to write. She currently lives in Geelong, Australia, but returns to New Zealand often.



  ENRIQUE SOLINAS was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on July 11, 1969. He holds a degree as Professor in Arts and Communication Sciences (CONSUDEC) and has a diploma as Bachelor of Arts (UCA). Since 1989 he collaborates with publications in Argentina and abroad, and is a member of two scholar research groups; one deals with Argentine and Latin American literature (CONICET) and the other works on Literature and Mysticism (SIPLET - ALALITE).



  Péter Gerőcs was born in Budapest, in 1985. By the time he published his first book in 2010, titled Zombor and the Universe (Zombor és a világ), he had been editing two periodicals and awarded the "Íróiskola" prize of the Ulpius-ház Publishing House. He represented Hungary on the European First Book Festival in 2012 with his first book. During the same year he also published his second book, titled Objects (Tárgyak).



  Hans Henning Harmer, was born in 1943 in Denmark. After graduating from University of Copenhagen, he had a broad amount of experiences from different work-situations and jobs. His first novel got a debutant prize at the literary Fair of Copenhagen. The same year first prize in a scandinavian, literary competition for suspense-novels. During the years he has received many scholarships from the Danish state.



  Jaime Panqueva is a story writer born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1973. Since 1998 lives abroad and has also Mexican citizenship. He studied Economics in his homeland, International Marketing in Germany and Master in Latin American Studies in Salamanca, Spain. His first novel, The Rose from China, was awarded the prestigious National Beaux Arts Award Juan Rulfo in 2009, and was published in 2011 by Grupo Planeta.



  Jervey Tervalon is an award-winning, best-selling novelist based in Los Angeles, United States. He was born in New Orleans and raised in Los Angeles, and received his MFA in Creative Writing from UC Irvine where he worked with Thomas Keneally. Jervey Tervalon is a writer of six novels, two anthologies, a collection of stories and numerous essays on a wide range of publications including the Quality Paper Book Club's New Voices Award, and the Los Angeles Times bestseller?Dead Above Ground.?His new novel,?Monster's Chef?will be published June 2014.



  He has published a volume of poetry, in 2009, its title is 'Ez az egész' (That's all). He translated many poems of Horace, the ancient Latin classic, they were published in 'Horatius versei' (Horace's selected poems), in 2006. In 2001, he edited a volume of foreign poetry in classical Hungarian translations ('Régi magyar műfordítások' = Old Hungarian Translations). His second collection of poems is planned to be published in 2015. ('Bubbles' is the working title.)



  Victoria Caceres was born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1968. She studied Lettres and Philosophy at University of Buenos Aires. She is a writer, a teacher of English and Spanish, a translator and a literary mentor.



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