Aline Cateux holds a PhD in anthropology. Her work on Mostar looks at the disappearance of the city, layers of memory and collective mobilizations. Her companionship with Bosnia and Herzegovina is 25 years old. She currently work on an art/research project called There will be a past based on samples of ruins from Mostar she collected over the last decade.

Roxana Coman is currently a researcher at Orient-Institut Istanbul, member of the COST Action Europe through Textiles, and Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London. Her research interests focus on 18th century Ottoman Empire’s material culture and 19th-20th century museums and private collections in Southeast Europe.

Rebecca Duras is a Croatian-American writer currently based between Zagreb and Niš. She writes about generational cycles, the memory of Yugoslavia, and home (wherever that may be). Her work has previously been published in Catapult, Barzakh, and on her Substack, The Best F#cking Years of Your Life.

Hana Grgić is 1/2 of a culinary duo HANJA that she founded with her twin sister Anja. HANJA's focus is on seasonality, drawing inspiration from the Balkan heritage, ingredients, and cooking.

Larisa Jašarević is an anthropologist. An independent scholar, she works and lives by an apiary in northeastern Bosnia. Her book, Beekeeping in the End Times, on the subject of apiculture, climate change, and Islamic eschatology, is in press (Indiana University Press, 2023).

Natalie Kikić is a Croatian American speculative fiction writer who grew up on stories of her parents’ lives in the former Yugoslavia. She holds a Bachelor’s in Slavic Languages & Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley, and her work explores Balkan folklore, belonging, and hauntings, both ghostly and romantic.

Réka Krizmanics is a historian and an Eastern European academic migrant in Germany. She works as Akademische Rätin at the Bielefeld University. Building on (but somewhat departing from) her previous interest in intellectual history, she focuses on histories of women's solidarity between the Eastern Bloc and the Global South.

Roxani Krystalli is an academic at the University of St Andrews. A key question animating her work is what sustains life in the wake of loss. Her first book, Good Victims: The Political as Feminist Question, was published in 2024. She writes occasional essays on Stories of Conflict and Love.

Katarina Kušić is a researcher trained in International Politics living in Rijeka. You can find out more at katarinakusic.com.

Ashira Morris is a freelance writer based between Tallahassee, Florida and Sofia, Bulgaria. She’s interested in local environments and the forces that shape them, and her reporting work has been published by Foreign Policy, Artforum, and National Geographic. You can also find her recommending books at the Mahala bookstore and teaching as an adjunct lecturer for the University of Florida. 

Dijana Mujkanović is a PhD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh, researching the nature of interpersonal cross-ethnic relationships in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel for her dissertation. When free and able, she likes to spend her time hiking and watching birds, making pottery, and cooking.

Genta Nishku is a writer, translator and literary scholar. Her research focuses on silence, testimony, and resistance in contemporary Albanian and post-Yugoslav literatures. Her short fiction has recently been published in the Kenyon Review and new_sinews, and her poetry is forthcoming in Bennington Review and Washington Square Review. She was born and raised in Tirana, and currently lives in New York City.

Christina Novakov-Ritchey earned her Ph.D. at the University of California-Los Angeles and she currently serves as Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. Her research and teaching focus on theories and histories of colonialism, socialism, folklore, and art.

Ena Selimović is a writer and translator who works from Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian into English. Her work has appeared in PMLA, Slavic and East European Journal, World Literature Today, Reading in Translation, among others. She cofounded the Turkoslavia translators collective, which celebrated the launching of its translation journal in 2022.

Mela Žuljević is a design researcher from Mostar interested in maps, landscapes and development. She is currently a postdoc at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, researching the cartography of peace agreements and its legacies in the landscapes of Bosnia and Herzegovina.