Our authors

Constant Léon is author and trans journalist based in Armenia since 2018 (RTS, Ouest-France, Le Monde diplomatique). Also painter and sound designer, he is working on a novel set in a museum of incest, which allows access in the flesh to the violence linked to intersectionality and to forms of resilience, not yet colonised by liberalism.

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.

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’ is coming in August. 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 and lives in Paris since 2010. She published her first novel in 2022, "Le gout des garçons".

Laura is a journalist, author, and filmmaker in the radio and podcasting industry. She believes that life sounds better through headphones, how about you? Born to an English mother and a Bulgarian father, she has always been interested in questions of belonging, community, and identity. Since graduating from the École Supérieure de Journalisme de Lille in 2019, she has joined several national radio stations (RMC, Europe 1, Radio Classique...) and continues to work regularly for the Transfert podcast (Slate audio). Living abroad in Dublin between 2021 and 2023, she also served as a correspondent for French-speaking radios for two years (Radio Suisse, RTBF, Radio Canada, Radio France, RFI...).

Born and raised in working class Paris in the 1970's, Karim Madani has been immersed in the love of cinema, comics, jazz, soul music, funk and film soundtracks since he was a child. Freelance journalist for prestigious magazines specialized in urban cultures. (Vice, les Inrocks), he is also ghostwriter for artists, editor of bios for journalists and collaborates with labels like Universal Sony or Capitol.

Born in Paris in 1993, Lola developed a passion for stories early on. After her studies in theatre focused on dramaturgy, she discovered the world of podcasts. She launched her first one in 2016, titled "Dans la Loge" ["Backstage"], a series of interviews with female performers. She received training at Radio Campus Paris, Longueurs d'Ondes before going back to university to complete a master's degree in Journalism. In 2020, she self-produced a podcast called "Déplacement(s)" ["Shifting"]: life trajectories turned upside down consequently to the Covid-19 crisis.

With a father of Algerian and Moroccan Jewish origins and a French mother, Eva is very attached to both her native Limousin and North Africa. She is a journalist, author and director. Her work focuses on Jewish and Arab-Muslim cultures from here and elsewhere, exile and immigration, revolts, identity, love, intra-family violence, women and childhood.

Arriving in Lebanon in 2011 almost by accident, my mind has never left since. I like to dissect the complexity of this country and then tell it through human stories. I am a freelance journalist and I write on subjects other than Lebanon, such as public policy and disability.

Vivian Lofiego is a Franco-Argentinian writer and translator. She lives in Buenos Aires. Latest publications: Le Sang des papillons. Ed. JCLattès (novel). La Vie secrète. Os de seiche (poetry). Denis Salas' Albert Camus : la juste révolte. Ed. Jusbaires (translation).

Born in the Paris suburbs, Ryad Maouche is 27 years old and has a master's degree in Journalism from CELSA (Paris-Sorbonne). In 2020, he co-founded the media company Frictions.