Yohan Holtkamp (Germany) is a poet and performance artist. He studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. His texts have been published in several anthologies, including the Jahrbuch der Lyrik and Glitter magazine. His performative works have been presented at Trans*Poetica and Gold+Beton, among other venues. He was also a resident at the Center for Literature.

Ana Wetherall-Grujić was born in Yugoslavia and grew up in Tyrol. She worked for many years as a journalist and wrote the column “Prominenter Platz” for the Austrian daily newspaper DER STANDARD, focusing on equal opportunities, feminism, and pop culture. Her debut novel Blutsschwestern was nominated for the Rauris Literature Prize and won the 2025 Glauser Prize for Best Debut.

Katarina Gotic Damiani (Bosnia) is a poet working across experimental writing, translation, performance, and visual art. She is the author of three poetry collections—”we need a breathing tongue between” (kith books, 2024), “where am i in the world?” (2025), and “leerlauf” (parasitenpresse, 2026)—and has developed a series of language-based works exploring translinguality, fragmentation, and the loss of mother tongue(s). She is a PhD candidate in Artistic Research at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and lives in Berlin.

Melody Makeda Ledwon translates into and from German, English, and African American Language. As an editor and fiction copy editor, she also contributes her perspective and expertise to SAND Journal. Among other works, she (co-)translated Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 (btb, 2024), Angela Y. Davis: An Autobiography (Aki, 2023), and HALLO, UND TSCHÜSS, KOKO, COME IN (Theater der Welt, 2023).

Elsye Suquilanda (Ecuador) is an author, posthumanist poet, filmmaker and performance artist. She is a co-founder of the Dogsofia Chichoismo. Her work explores sensibilities regarding human and animal rights as well as the pulse of the planet. Navigating between ritual, irony, and disobedience, her work is a rebellious act in which language barks, the body flows, and humor reveals cracks in reality. Her actions and texts expand in books, poetry videos, songs, performances, and academic studies. Her publications include Pelvis Artificial Blue, Lensi Lusikka Suussa, 030-Berlin, Agua de Mono Eau de Toilette Spree, Cenicienta de Späti, Ich schicke Dir meine Mandel in einer Brieftaube, Julieta la perrita que se cree humana, Nalgas. She collaborates with musicians, visual artists, illustrators, writers and activist projects, creating hybrid works that challenge genres and cultural hierarchies to imagine alternative forms of existence through art.

Xueh Magrini Troll, aka Xuehka, was born in Bogotá and belongs to the third generation of female artists in her family. She studied fine arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, illustration at Escuela de arte diez in Madrid, and visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee. Since 2009 she has lived in Berlin where she regularly illustrates for German newspapers like Die Taz, Junge Welt and Missy magazine. Drawing is her way of understanding the world around her and incidentally discovering herself. Feminism, diversity, cultural clashes, migration crisis and the human condition in general are part of the subjects that appear in her work out of a desire to observe what surrounds her, quite often with a humorous touch.. For this series, she will create live drawings during the reading by Elsye Suquilanda.