Khuê Phạm is an award-winning Vietnamese-German writer. A graduate of the London School of Economics, she worked for The Guardian and NPR's Berlin bureau before becoming an editor at the renowned German weekly Die Zeit. Specialising in long-form journalism, she profiled Kevin Spacey before his sexual assault trial and co-wrote an investigation into the Essex lorry deaths that earned her the nomination for Germany's version of the Pulitzer Prize. In 2012, she co-wrote Wir neuen Deutschen, a non-fiction book about second-generation immigrants in Germany. Her debut novel, Brothers and Ghosts, is loosely inspired by her own family, whose journey she traces over the course of five decades. Phạm lives in Berlin. Daryl Lindsey studied journalism and German at San Francisco State University and Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen. He works as a journalist and also as a literary translator for publications including Germany's Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He has called Berlin home since 2004. Charles Hawley holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Whitman College and completed a master's degree in journalism at New York's Columbia University. In addition to working as a journalist, he is a literary translator for leading German publications including Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, and the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He has lived in Berlin since 2002.