Marshall Moore — Excerpt: I had yen in my money clip, vague expectations, and a sore backside from staying seated most of the way across the Pacific.
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Cate LeBrun — Excerpt: I lack enough German to be considered functional so I nod like a stage actor, a smile fixed and hanging on by its sensitive teeth.
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Mary Buchanan — Excerpt: Her DNA smells of roses and lavender and her days are spent searching mirrors for keys to the future her author has already denied her.
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Raka Banerjee — Excerpt: I remember reading a beautiful poetry collection, one of the first borrowed from the British Council Library, on-board the Kolkata tram.
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Rafaela Kottou — Excerpt: Salamanca, Spain is where I had the best steak of my life. It was at a restaurant in the center of the city, which they call the Plaza Mayor.





