Emily Zobel Marshall is Professor of Postcolonial Literature at Leeds Beckett University. She is of French-Caribbean and British heritage and is expert on the trickster figure in the culture of the African Diaspora. She is author of Anansi's Journey: A Story of Jamaican Cultural Resistance and American Trickster: Trauma Tradition and Brer Rabbit. 

Ivana Akotowaa Ofori is a Ghanaian storyteller, writer and poet. She has been nominated and shortlisted for various awards, including the Nommo Awards, and her work has appeared in anthologies such as Africa Risen and Daring Shifts, and in online magazines such as Jalada Africa and AFREADA. The Year of Return (2024) is her debut novella.