Blood Pact & Other Stories

James Graham is a multi award-winning playwright and screenwriter.

His play This House gained critical acclaim, enjoyed a sell-out run at the National Theatre's Olivier in 2013 and its 2017 West End revival was Olivier-nominated. It was chosen by popular vote as the best play of the 2010's by Methuen Drama.

James created theatre history when his two plays Ink, about the early days of Rupert Murdoch, and Labour of Love, a romantic political comedy, played in theatres next to each other in the West End in 2017. James won an Olivier award in 2018 for Labour of Love and Ink transferred to Broadway in 2019, receiving six Tony award nominations.

James' play The Vote (Donmar Warehouse) aired in real time on TV in the final 90 minutes of the 2015 polling day and was BAFTA-nominated. His most recent television film, Brexit: An Uncivil War (Channel 4/HBO) is nominated for a 2019 Emmy Award.

Louise B. Popkin is a widely published Boston-based translator with strong ties to Uruguay. Her selection of Mario Benedetti's poetry was shortlisted for the 2013 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.

Tim Richards is a freelance travel writer based in Melbourne, Australia. His writing has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines and websites, and in Lonely Planet’s guidebooks.

David Unger, recipient of Guatemala’s Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize for lifetime achievement, is a poet, translator, novelist, and essayist. He has translated eighteen titles to date, including his acclaimed re-translation of Guatemalan Nobelist Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Mr. President (Penguin Classics, 2022), The Popol Vuh, and books by Enrique Lihn, Nicanor Parra, Rigoberta Menchú, and Silvia Molina, among others. His most recent novel is In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful (Mosaic Press, 2023).