Niki Segnit

Niki Segnit is an award-winning food writer. Her first book, The Flavour Thesaurus, won the André Simon Award for best food book, the Guild of Food Writers Award for best first book, and was shortlisted for the Galaxy National Book Awards. It has been translated into fourteen languages. Her follow-up, Lateral Cooking, was published in the UK last year, and shortlisted for the André Simon Award. On BBC Radio 4, she has contributed to The Food Programme, The Kitchen Cabinet, Woman’s Hour and Word of Mouth, and her columns, features and reviews have appeared in The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, The Times Literary Supplement, The Sunday Times and 1843 and Prospect magazines. She lives in central London with her husband and two children.

Nat Segnit

Nat Segnit is a novelist, journalist and broadcaster. He holds a first-class degree in English from Oxford University. His first novel, Pub Walks in Underhill Country, was published by Penguin in 2012 and shortlisted for the Desmond Elliot Prize. He is currently working on a full-length, non-fiction study of retreat, to be published by Penguin Random House in 2020. His long-form non-fiction, short fiction, essays and reviews have appeared in publications including Harper’s, The New Yorker, 1843 and the TLS. He regularly writes and broadcasts for BBC Radio 4, and has recently scripted two episodes of a new Tang-dynasty detective series for Chinese TV. He lives in central London with his wife and two children.

Amanda Burr Xido

Amanda Burr Xido is a writer and film producer. A recent graduate of Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing program, she is at work on her novel The Dig and a collection of short stories. She is currently the creative producer and co-writer of "Sons of Detroit," a film mixing documentary, performance, and fiction, directed by Jeremy Xido. The two are also collaborating on a narrative film set in Detroit, currently in development. Other recent producing credits include the series FILMS BYKIDS for PBS, the documentaries "Death Metal Angola" and "Man Shot Dead," and the short doc/fiction hybrid "Solitary/Release." She was previously the creative director for the digital learning company Nomadic Learning, where she wrote, directed, and produced over 50 animated short films. She has also worked as an associate programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival, a consultant with the Screenwriters Colony, a programmer for the Chicago Humanities Festival, and as a theater director. She holds a BS in Performance Studies from Northwestern University. She was born in Nashville, raised in Florida, New Jersey, and Texas, and has spent time in over twenty countries on five continents. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter.