Holly-Jane Rahlens, a born New Yorker, grew up in Brooklyn and Queens and graduated from Queens College. She moved to Berlin soon after where she has lived virtually all her adult life. While remaining an American citizen, she has flourished in the German media world, working in radio, television and film as an actress, producer, and commentator, and creating a series of highly-praised one-woman-shows. She has written two novels for adults, BECKY BERNSTEIN GOES BERLIN and MAZEL TOV IN LAS VEGAS.

Krystyna Kuhn, born in Würzburg in 1960, studied Slavic, German and art history in both Moscow and Krakow. She worked as an editor and wrote novels, poems and short stories. Since 1998 she has worked as a freelance writer and she mainly writes crime and thriller novels. Krystyna Kuhn lives with her husband and daughter near Frankfurt.

Minette Walters is a well-known crime writer whose first novel, The Ice House, won the Crime Writer's Award for the best novel in 1992. The daughter of an army officer, Minette spent the first ten years of her life moving between army bases in the north and south of England. She was sent to boarding school in Salisbury at the age of 12, and this had a great influence on the rest of her life, making her independent and ambitious. During a gap year between school and university, she worked in Israel on a kibbutz and in various institutions in Jerusalem.

Elsegret Ruge I was born in Germany in 1950. I like to travel and I have seen a lot of the World. Currently I live in a little village near the city Kiel. From 1960 to 1976 I lived in Munich. I often go back to Munich to visit friends, and to visit the "Deutsche Museum".

Elsegret Ruge I was born in Germany in 1950. I like to travel and I have seen a lot of the World. Currently I live in a little village near the city Kiel. From 1960 to 1976 I lived in Munich. I often go back to Munich to visit friends, and to visit the "Deutsche Museum".

Sylvia Olsen was born and raised in Victoria, the capital of British Columbia, on Canada's Pacific coastline. When sje was seventeen, she married an Indian, a member of the Tsartlip First Nations. Olsen has raised her four children within the Tsartlip community. She went to university at the age of 35 and obtained a Master's degree in history, specializing in Native/White relations in Canada.

Dominique Torres is a journalist and report for France 2. She has travelled the globe and for several years, she has taken part in a television emission about human rights. She has written books and made movies about slavery. In 1993 she founded a committee against slavery, and 12 years later the "Réagir dans le monde".

Jesús Carazo (1944 -) was for a long part of his life, professor of languages and arts. He is now retired. His literary work has varied. In the later years he has written a lot of different things. His works have been read in Spain as well as the rest of world and he has won several awards. He writes for teenagers and one of his novels has been named one of the 100 best books for teenagers of the 20th century.

Number the Stars Lois Lowry was born in Hawaii, but because her father was in the army and her husband in the navy, she lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Tokyo, Rhode Island, California, Connecticut, South Carolina, Massachusetts and Maine, where she began her writing career. The main subject of her 30 books is human connections.