Susie Thomas received her PhD in English literature from the University of London. She has published academic articles on London writers from Aphra Behn to Martin Amis. Her Reader's Guide to Hanif Kureishi appeared in 2005 and she was the Reviews Editor of The Literary London Journal until 2020. Her most recent book, So We Live: The Novels of Alexander Baron (2019), was edited with Ken Worpole and Andrew Whitehead. She is a regular contributor to the London Fictions website.

Zainab Magdy is an academic, performer, visual artist, and writer based in Cairo. Her creative work and research explore personal narratives, archives, and memory. She was a resident artist at the Royal Court Theatre in London, the Literarische Colloquium, Berlin, and the Cité Internationale des Art in Paris. Zainab taught at the Department of English Literature, Cairo University, for fifteen years. In 2023 she completed her PhD on Waguih Ghali's writings with a focus on life-writing genres.