DBC Pierre
DBC Pierre won the Booker Prize for his debut novel Vernon God Little, which was also awarded the Whitbread First Novel Award in 2003 – the first time the two awards had been granted to the same book. Pierre is also the author of Ludmilla’s Broken English, Lights out in Wonderland, a book of short stories, and a novella, Breakfast with the Borgias. He was awarded the James Joyce Award from the Literary and Historical Society of University College Dublin.
Mariana Alessandri
Mariana Alessandri is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She has written for The New York Times, Philosophy Today, and many academic journals. Alessandri is the author of the forthcoming book, , and her teaching interests include Existentialism and Mexican-American Philosophy.
