Alessandra Mattanza, author, screenwriter, and fine-art photographer, was born in Italy but has lived abroad for more than 20 years. She worked as an editor for the publisher Handelsblatt in Munich. Her great passion for cinema has led her to specialize in interviews with actors and directors, as well as in traveling and fiction. She currently works as a foreign correspondent, contributor, and editor for several publishers in Italy and Germany. Besides novels, she writes screenplays, tourist guides, and coffee table and travel books. For White Star Publishers she published
Australia: The New Frontier,
Wonders of New York,
My New York: Celebrities Talk About the City, and
My Paris: Celebrities Talk about the Ville Lumiere.
Chris Versteeg lives and works in Rotterdam as a graphic designer and illustrator at Projekt C (projektc.nl). Chief-editor and publisher of SAM Magazine (streetandmore.com), she is a cofounder of the Lastplak collective (lastplak.com).