BioEmmanuel Iduma Emmanuel Iduma was born in Akure, Nigeria in 1989, and trained as a Lawyer in Obafemi Awolowo University,

Ile-Ife. He is the co-publisher of Saraba Magazine, acclaimed as one of the finest literary journals in Africa. In 2011 he became Editor of 3bute.com, an online mashable anthology of African modernity, which has adapted stories for BBC African Focus Magazine and the Caine Prize. Emmanuel joined the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photography Organization first as a blogger on the 2011 road trip from Lagos to Addis Ababa and then as Content Management Supervisor. His work for Invisible Borders has been featured in Arise Magazine, Africa Report, as well as in the New Museum in New York's 'The Ungovernables' exhibition. His writings has been published online and in print, including in StoryTime, African Roar (2011), Daughters of Eve and Other New Short Stories from Nigeria, Speaking for the Generations: An Anthology of Contemporary African Short Stories, Sentinel Nigeria, Itch, Saraba, New Black Magazine, and elsewhere. His writings on Occupy Nigeria was published in Dreaming in Public: Building the Occupy Movement (New Internationalist Press) He blogs on KTravula, Black Looks, and Mantle Thought, reflecting on African modernity, art criticism, literature and web-technology. He is realizing Gambit, a conversation project on Mantle Thought with emerging African writers, including writers from Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Botswana and Somali. Emmanuel was a finalist of the Words In Action International Literary Contest (2008), winner of the Naija Stories Independence Day Contest (2010) and Al Mahdiya Essay Competition (2011). Farad is his first novel, and he is working on a second novel.

BioRichard Ali Richard Ali, a lawyer, was born in Kano, Nigeria and grew up in the resort town of Jos. He holds an LL.B from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2010. He was the youngest magazine Editor in Nigeria at the Kaduna-based Sardauna Magazine [2004 2006]. Author of the warmly received 2012 novel, City of Memories, Richard is also Editor-in-Chief of the Sentinel Nigeria Magazine and was a runner-up at the 2008 John la Rose Short Story Competition. In March 2008, he was selected amongst 50 other emerging Nigerian writers to participate in the British Councils Radiophonics Workshop. He joined the Sentinel Literary Movement of Nigeria in 2011 and has undertaken the editing of its quarterly Sentinel Nigeria Magazine [www.sentinelnigeria.org] since then.

In 2011, at the International Convention of the Association of Nigerian Authors, he was elected as Publicity Secretary [North] for a term of two years after having served at the Plateau State chapter for years. Out of a desire to further add to the promising profile of African writing, he formed Nigerias newest publishing company, together with Mrs. Azafi Omoluabl-Ogosi in January 2012. Parrsia Publishers Ltd has thus far published two novels and a collection of short stories under its imprintsit also just published the prestigious anthology of Commonwealth Prize-winning author Helon Habilas Creative Writing Workshop for a client, Fidelity Bank. Richard has just completed a 6-week Residency at the Ebedi Writers Residency Program. He lives in Jos where he practices law and runs an IT-company together with the northern office Parrsia Publishers Ltd where he serves as Chief Operating Officer. He is unmarried and enjoys chess, reading and travelling.