Our authors

Pamela Rahn Sanchez. She is the author of Brief Poems to Understand Absence (2019, Ediciones Torremozas, Spain) among other collections of poems. In 2022 she was a resident at IWP at the University of Iowa and the City of Asylum in the city of Pittsburgh.

Luíza Fazio is a Brazilian screenwriter and author, recognized in the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list, which highlights Brazil’s most promising young talents. She has worked on Sintonia and Invisible City (Netflix), the latter created by Carlos Saldanha and a hit in over 40 countries. More recently, she wrote the teen series Back to 15 (Netflix). In 2022, she was selected by the U.S. Embassy to join the prestigious International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She is currently developing her first project as a director, exploring queer memories within her family.

TJ Benson is a writer and visual artist from Nigeria whose collection of short stories ‘We Won’t Fade into Darkness’ was published in 2018. 'The Madhouse' is his first novel and his 3rd book ‘People Live Here’ has been published in 2022. He lives in an apartment full of plants and is in danger of becoming a cat person.

Joy Majdalani was born in Beirut in 1992. She published her first novel in 2022, "Le gout des garçons". And the second one in 2024, "Jessica seule dans sa chambre".

Floriane Gitenay pursued studies in creative writing in Le Havre and earned a master's degree in cultural journalism from the University of Paris Nanterre. She navigates between literature and journalism, occasionally blending the two. For Frictions, she conceptualizes and produces podcasts.

Maud Le Rest is an independant journalist and author specialized in gender and feminism. She has worked with Arrêt sur images, Causette, Gaze Magazine and SoFilm.