(Turkey, 1984) is a writer, poet, journalist and literary translator. Her poetry has won several Turkish awards. Her books include Darkness Also Falls Ground (2009), I Founded My Home in the Mountains (translation), I Drew the Sky Again (2011), The Other Consciousness: Surrealism and The Second New (2013, on modern Turkish avant-garde poetry), Before Me There Were Deserts (2014), Modern Readings in Turkish Literature (2016), Permanent Talk with the Beloved (2017), and The Memory of Poetry: Writings on Poetics, Canon and Women (2018). She has translated the poetry of Behruz Kia, Ronny Someck, Attila F. Balazs, and Vietnamese poets Mai Van Phan and Nguyễn Quang Thiều. Her poetry has been translated and published in the USA (Mundus Artium Press, When I Slept in a Rose Petal), Hungary (AB-Art, A Rozsaszedes Szertartasa), France (Edition Bruno Doucey, Ainsi Disent-ils) India (Bodhi), Colombia (Silaba, Antes de mi Habia Desiertos), Spain (Edicion de Jaime B. Rosa, Poemas Selectos), Vietnam (Vietnam Writers’ Association, Nghi le Hai Hoa Hong Trong Vuon), Japan (Duet of Flame), and Portugal (Poesia a Sul, Conversa Permanente Com O Amado). She has been a writer-in-residence in the USA, Hong Kong and Belgium. Müesser is the editor of the literature magazine Şiirden (Of Poetry). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Turkish literature at Bilkent University in Ankara.

(Tunisia, 1960) is a writer, essayist, traveller and popular panel moderator. He has published fiction and non-fiction; was the director of the debating platform and venue De Balie; and was founder of the literary bookshop Perdu and the cultural centre De Tolhuistuin (all in Amsterdam). He performed with Enkidu Khaled in their jointly created documentary play Bagdad. Due to his curiosity about how artists recreate their cities after a crisis, he travelled to Sarajevo, Beirut, Tirana, Algiers, New York, Kiev, Jakarta and Qamishlo. At the invitation of PAX, he wrote Srebrenica & PAX 1995-2020, an overview of 25 years of support to the Association of Women of Srebrenica by the IKV and PAX in response to the genocide in Bosnia. In 2021 he published Gastvrijheid (Hospitality), in which he explores the art of hospitality through a mix of travel stories, observations, memories and imagery.