Cecilia Rossi is Associate Professor in Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, where she convenes the MA in Literary Translation and works for BCLT as Postgraduate and Professional Liaison. Her latest translation, The Last Innocence and The Lost Adventures (Alejandra Pizarnik) was published by Ugly Duckling Presse and shortlisted for the National Translation Awards for Poetry (ALTA) in 2020.

Denise Rose Hansen is the publisher of Lolli Editions, a press specialising in contemporary fiction in English translation based at Somerset House.

Paul Engles is an editor at MacLehose Press, specialising in bringing authors in translation to the English-speaking world. Books he has edited or published have won the Premio Valle Inclán, the Banipal Prize and the CWA Dagger for Crime Fiction in Translation, and been long- and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.

Sanchita Basu De Sarkar is the owner of the Children's Bookshop in Muswell Hill, which is the oldest children's bookshop in the country. She been a judge for the Costa Book Award, the Branford Boase Award, and the Times/Children House Prize, amongst others. She was named a Bookseller Rising Star in 2018 and was one the Bookseller Bookshop Heroes of 2020. The Children's Bookshop was most recently nominated for Best Children's bookshop in the 2022 British Book Awards.

Sidonie is an art director and designer with over 20 years’ publishing experience. She has worked on almost all genres, and multiple best-selling titles. She is co-founder of Raspberry Books, a small, award-winning children’s book company set up in 2018. Based in Bath, in the west of England, Raspberry Books strives to create original, entertaining and eye-catching books that children will love and want to return to again and again. Several Raspberry titles have been shortlisted for awards, including the beautiful non-fiction picture book An Arctic Story (2023 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards), while Raspberry’s How Many Mice Make an Elephant? won the Schools and Libraries Information Book Award (8-12 category).