Our authors

Babak Bayat, who has been living in France for five years, is a writer, translator and painter. The author of a novel and a collection of short stories, he has also translated a novel and several essays from French into Persian. He teaches creative writing. He is currently working on a new novel, in which the political situation in contemporary Iran plays a central role.

Améla Alihodzic was born in Normandy in 1983 to a Yugoslav father and a Norman mother. A production manager and artistic collaborator in the performing arts, she was deputy director of the TJP CDN in Strasbourg before returning to study creative writing at Paris 8. She is writing an autofictional narrative about the languages she has lost but which still live within her.

Marius Tisné is a writer and currently a member of the Creative Writing Master’s program at Paris 8. Through fantastic short stories, he explores the relationship to memory, the past, and the traces—material or otherwise—left behind by people as they pass through.

Crédit photo : Céline Nammour

Paul Crassous is a Master’s student in Creative Writing at Paris 8. In his first novel, currently in progress, he examines memory and family fractures

Photo credit: Matthieu Crassous

Margaux and Glenn both studied in the field of applied arts — she at Central Saint Martins in London in fashion, he at the École du Paysage in Versailles. Their paths converge in a shared transdisciplinary approach. Alongside their work as a textile designer and a landscape architect, they are writing their first novel as part of the Creative Writing Master’s program at Paris 8.

Maya Vidon-White is a photojournalist based in France, working for the American press. She spent fifteen years abroad covering conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Back in her hometown, she now turns through this podcast to a more intimate struggle: insomnia

Currently studying creative writing at Paris 8, Mona comes from the world of social and solidarity economy. Her work probes the body and language, approached both as material realities and as social constructs.

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Venezuela, 1982. He is a fiction writer. He has published the collection of short stories Dinero fácil (Libros del Fuego, 2014) and the book of non-fiction Crónicamente Caracas (FCU, 2008). In 2016 he was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2024 he was a guest writer to the festival Leap Off Page, in Bulgaria. His short pieces have won awards in the USA and Venezuela. His texts appear in anthologies published in Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela. Among other media he has collaborated in Frictions, Latin American Literature Today,  Zeit Online, and Papel Literario. Two of his short-stories were audio recorded in the collection The Palabra Archive, Library of Congress, USA. Selections of his work have been translated into English, German and Bulgarian. He lives in Berlin with his family

Claudia Antonio Quiroga Broggi was born and grew up in Villa Mercedes, in the province of San Luis in Argentina. He has a degree in Engineering and Electronics and has pursued a career in those fields.

Ten of his sonnets are at the Museum of Poetry of Carolina in San Luis and two of his stories were published by the "San Luis Libro Program". He is about to publish a historical novel which will be available in Argentina.