Contributors
Ashraf Aziz is a poet and writer living in Gaza. He studied business administration and lost his job due to the war. He has two children. He continues to publish his poetry online.
Rüdiger Brandis is a game producer and designer in Berlin. He helped establish two works councils, serving as chair of one. He studied history and game development and is completing a PhD on the influence of historical theory on the design of digital historical games.
Alasdair Cannon is an Australian writer based in London. He is a co-founder of Eidolon Ink, a not-for-profit publishing cooperative that supports progressive causes. He is the author of Infinite Discontent: Writings on the Allure of Fascism (2025) and Holding Patterns (2022). His work has appeared in Arena Quarterly and The Manchester Review.
Angela Dimitrakaki is an academic, writer, and theorist whose work explores art, politics, labour, and feminist materialism. She teaches at the University of Edinburgh and has published widely on contemporary art and the global conditions shaping its production.
Inua Ellams is an internationally acclaimed poet, playwright, screenwriter, and graphic artist. His books include Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars, The Actual, and Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales. He received an MBE for Services to the Arts in 2023 and holds an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London.
Suzanna Fitzpatrick’s poems have aired on BBC Radio 4 and appeared widely across journals in the UK, US, Ireland, Australia, and Canada. Winner of the Hamish Canham Prize (2014) and the Newcastle University Chancellor’s Prize (2024, 2025), she is completing an MA in Writing Poetry with Newcastle University and the Poetry School.
Vaios Kolofotias is a Berlin-based writer and technology professional from Greece. With advanced degrees in Computer Science and Product Management (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Stanford University), he brings a technical and analytical lens to his fiction and essays, exploring digital culture and power.
Danielle Maisano is a novelist, editor, and doctoral researcher based in London. Her debut novel, The Ardent Witness (Victorina Press, 2019), was a finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards. She has previously edited for Exiled Ink and the anthology Resistance: Voices of Exiled Writers (Palewell Press, 2020), and is a member of the Coordinating Collective for DiEM25.
Raul Martinez is an artist, theorist, and writer exploring the political force of aesthetics and the role of art in moments of social rupture. His work engages Marxist, post-Marxist, and contemporary radical traditions, examining the relationship between cultural production and political possibility.
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born visual artist and filmmaker. She left Iran to study art in Los Angeles in 1974, shortly before the Islamic Revolution, and did not return until 1990. Much of her work examines the physical, emotional, and cultural dimensions of women’s lives in Iran, and the female gaze as an instrument of power. In 1999, she won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale for her film Turbulent. Based in New York, she works internationally.
Nikos Papastergiadis is a Professor in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne and director of the Research Unit for Public Culture. He works across contemporary art, spatial theory, and digital culture, leading major international research projects on public space and aesthetics.
Nasrin Parvaz became a civil rights activist when the Islamic Republic took power in Iran in 1979. Arrested in 1982, she was imprisoned for eight years before fleeing to the UK in 1993. Now an author and artist, her work confronts the legacies of torture, imprisonment, and exile. Her prison memoir, One Woman’s Struggle in Iran, won in the 2019 International Book Awards and has been translated into several languages; her novels include The Secret Letters from X to A and Coffee.
Alexandra Petrus is a doctoral candidate at the University of Southern California. She holds an MA in Game Development and Research from TH Köln. Her work examines media environments and the politics of “cosy games,” with a focus on utopian and dystopian imaginaries.
Xaviera Ringeling was born in Paraguay and is a Chilean national based in London. She studied Philosophy in Chile and Environmental Studies in London, where she founded the poetry group Poesía Pandémica. Her poetry collection La oblicua luz de la tarde (2019) won the Premio Voces Nuevas (Torremozas), and her work appears widely in anthologies.
Jacob Smith is a writer and co-founder of the radical publishing house eidolon ink. His debut fiction collection will be published in 2026. Originally from South London, he is a PhD student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, researching technology and the temporality of social movements.
Elettra Stamboulis is a curator, writer, and educator whose work centres on political art, freedom of expression, and the conditions of artistic exile. She has curated major exhibitions across Europe and is known for her collaborations with artists and activists confronting state repression.