Rhea Boyden
Rhea Boyden is the Irish-born daughter of American parents. She has been visiting Berlin since the early 90′s and moved here permanently in January 2000. She has an honours BA in German language and literature, and has taught business English at many companies in Berlin including a particle accelerator and a chocolate factory. She loves to bake things out of chocolate for her friends with her neverending supplies, and is currently writing an autobiographical cookbook. She also loves poetry and art of all kinds, and gets a lot of her ideas for her articles and essays while swimming, a sport she loves.
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Natalye Childress
Natalye is a California native living in Berlin. With degrees in English (MA) and Journalism (BA), she naturally spends most of her time writing. In addition to words, she has a penchant for road bikes, indie music, improving her German, her three cats, obsessively reading and eating vegan ice cream. She is the author of a memoir, editor of music magazine Berlin Beat and maintains a personal blog, Deutsch, Bitte!
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Tam Eastley
Tam is from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She moved to Berlin almost four years ago and completed a Master’s Degree at the Freie Universität Berlin in English Literature and Cultural Studies. Never content staying in one place, she recently cured a bout of wanderlust with a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway. She is currently a freelance travel blogger and podcaster with Mädels With a Microphone, a monthly podcast series about the quirky side of Berlin. Her interests include culture, literature, travel and roller derby.
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Grashina Gabelmann
Grashina studied Fashion Journalism in London where she soon realized fashion is not for here and began working for an independent, DIY/illustration magazine called Flamingo. Last year she moved to Berlin where she writes for the online/print music magazine HHV, Sleek magazine and is currently bringing a whole new print magazine to life as the editor-in-chief. To see some of her writing, visit her website.
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Kirsten Hall
Kirsten Hall is an American-German freelance journalist living in Berlin. Since completing her bachelor’s degree in Journalism and Fine Arts at Indiana University, she works as an artist and writes freelance about art, culture, and travel for publications in the US and Europe.
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Natalie Holmes
Natalie Holmes lives and works in Berlin as a freelance writer and journalist. She is the founder of Lo/Rez Magazine, which deals with the intersection of art and science, and writes about sustainability and responsible travel on her blog, The Horseshoe Nail.
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Marcel Krueger
Marcel Krueger is a writer and blogger living in Berlin. His essays and stories have been published in the Daily Telegraph, Reykjavik Grapevine, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Spotted by Locals, amongst others. He has released his first book, a short story collection named “Stop Coming to My House’ last year, and after five years living in Ireland currently tries to divide his time between Berlin, Cologne and Dublin. You can find more uninteresting information on his personal blog King of Pain. He doesn’t like spiders.
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Rebecca Loyche
Rebecca is an artist, curator and writer from New York. She first came to Berlin for a 2-week performance piece where she lived as Ingmar Bergman’s characters from his film Persona. Shortly after that she fell in love with a German in Reykjavik and got an invite from a South African to come study in Germany. Her artwork can be found at www.rebeccaloyche.com and in 2010 she was the curator and Co-Director of the one-year project MMX Open Art Venue. The newest project she’s working on Co-Verlag just opened the end of April.
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Brian Melican
Born and bred in London, Brian moved to Germany in 2008 after a degree in modern languages. Since then, he’s lived in several parts of Germany and now calls Hamburg something like home – if he’s ever there. Brian likes slow travel and even slower food, but very much enjoys fast trains. He works as a translator, journalist and writer and is currently sub editor at Slow Travel Berlin.
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Lara Merrington
Lara Merrington is a freelance photographer, writer and curator from South Australia. She has exhibited in solo and group shows, photographed major Australian music festivals and bands whilst working in the visual arts for a number of galleries and museums. After living the last year in South America completing a number of artists residencies and fine-tuning an Argentinean slang to her Spanish; she finds her self in Berlin exploring a whole new world of art and culture. Art Elsewhere and A Note To Follow So are where you can read about it.
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Kelly Miller
Kelly is an aspiring poet from the beautiful state of Oregon in America’s Pacific Northwest corner – a region that taught her to love trees more than subways (both train and sandwich) and to slide gracefully into the rugged wackiness of Berlin, where she currently resides and thrives. A long-time student of German, social justice and other humans, Kelly does everything from teach languages to research migration, always with an ear for the ocean. She enjoys long walks, tiring runs, wine-filled conversations, and the art of ethnography.
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Giulia Pines
Giulia is a freelance writer and editor. She first moved from New York to Berlin in 2008, planning to stay for only a few months. Two and a half years later, it isn’t too difficult to guess what happened. When she isn’t writing, editing, and struggling with the Teutonic tongue, she accumulates new friends, stories, and recipes, all to be mixed into a heady brew packaged, labeled, and savored as “the life of an expat.” She hopes everyone will taste it at least once.
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Vanessa Remoquillo
Vanessa is a writer and editor in Berlin.
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Marian Ryan
Marian has worked as a book editor and is former fiction editor of At Length Mag. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia, The Writer’s Chronicle, Quick Fiction and elsewhere. She lives in Prenzlauer Berg.
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Peggy Schatz
Peggy Schatz is a Berliner, foodie, networker and blogger at heart as well as a web developer by profession. Besides her usual freelance work, Peggy provides several food-related online services, such as Berlin Food Info and an international gourmet calendar.
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Paul Scraton
Paul works for the Circus and has been involved in organising the eyewitness talks with the ZZB. He also runs the website Under A Grey Sky.
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Dougal Squires
Dougal has worked with Insight Radio in Glasgow and BBC Switch in London. He once lived in Berlin, where he contributed to Artconnect Berlin and Slow Travel Berlin and was loved as an all round excellent guy. He has now left for London and no longer contributes to STB, but we can’t bring ourselves to delete his name from the contributor list.
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Paul Sullivan
Paul is a Berlin-based writer, author & travel photographer and the founder/editor of Slow Travel Berlin. He has written and photographed for The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Independent, Matador Network as well as produced over a dozen guidebooks for Rough Guide, HG2, Wallpaper, Cool Camping and more. His personal website is here and some of his photography galleries can be viewed here.
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Wyndham Wallace
Wyndham has lived in Berlin since 2004, having spent the previous eight years running the UK office of Berlin’s City Slang Records. He works as a music and travel journalist (contributing to The Guardian, Uncut, BBC Music, The Quietus and more), and has been known to contribute photographs to a number of publications. In addition, he consults for two of Norway’s finest festivals, by:Larm and Træna, and worked as a manager for Cortney Tidwell and Lee Hazlewood, about whom he is currently working on a book, and for whom he wrote the lyrics to his final song, ‘Hilli (At The Top Of The World)’, a collaboration with Sigur Ros’ string section, amiina. If you ever watch Sebastian Schipper’s ‘Mitte Ende August’, you’ll see he did the English subtitles for that too. You can visit his website here.
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Tam Eastley
Tam is from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She moved to Berlin almost four years ago and completed a Master’s Degree at the Freie Universität Berlin in English Literature and Cultural Studies. Never content staying in one place, she recently cured a bout of wanderlust with a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway. She is currently a freelance travel blogger and podcaster with Mädels With a Microphone, a monthly podcast series about the quirky side of Berlin. Her interests include culture, literature, travel and roller derby.
Grashina Gabelmann
Grashina currently works at Berlin’s Sleek Magazine for art and fashion, is the Features Editor of Flamingo Magazine – a London based DIY magazine, and works as a freelance journalist on the side. To see some of her writing, visit her website.
Natalie Holmes
Natalie lives and works in Berlin. She loves learning German, birdwatching and travelling by train, in between working as a freelance travel consultant and aspiring writer. A keen environmentalist, Natalie writes about sustainability and responsible travel on her blog, The Horseshoe Nail. She is also the editor of the weekly Slow Listings.
Marcel Krueger
Marcel Krueger is a writer and blogger living in Berlin. His essays and stories have been published in the Daily Telegraph, Reykjavik Grapevine, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Spotted by Locals, amongst others. He has released his first book, a short story collection named “Stop Coming to My House’ last year, and after five years living in Ireland currently tries to divide his time between Berlin, Cologne and Dublin. You can find more uninteresting information on his personal blog King of Pain. He doesn’t like spiders.
Rebecca Loyche
Rebecca is an artist, curator and writer from New York. She first came to Berlin for a 2-week performance piece where she lived as Ingmar Bergman’s characters from his film Persona. Shortly after that she fell in love with a German in Reykjavik and got an invite from a South African to come study in Germany. Her artwork can be found at www.rebeccaloyche.com and in 2010 she was the curator and Co-Director of the one-year project MMX Open Art Venue. The newest project she’s working on Co-Verlag just opened the end of April.
Brian Melican
Born and bred in London, Brian moved to Germany in 2008 after a degree in modern languages. Since then, he’s lived in several parts of Germany and now calls Hamburg something like home – if he’s ever there. Brian likes slow travel and even slower food, but very much enjoys fast trains. He works as a translator, journalist and writer.
Giulia Pines
Giulia is a freelance writer and editor. She first moved from New York to Berlin in 2008, planning to stay for only a few months. Two and a half years later, it isn’t too difficult to guess what happened. When she isn’t writing, editing, and struggling with the Teutonic tongue, she accumulates new friends, stories, and recipes, all to be mixed into a heady brew packaged, labeled, and savored as “the life of an expat.” She hopes everyone will taste it at least once.
Vanessa Remoquillo
Vanessa is a writer and editor in Berlin.
Marian Ryan
Marian has worked as a book editor and is former fiction editor of At Length Mag. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia, The Writer’s Chronicle, Quick Fiction and elsewhere. She lives in Prenzlauer Berg.
Paul Scraton
Paul works for the Circus and has been involved in organising the eyewitness talks with the ZZB. He also runs the website Under A Grey Sky.
Dougal Squires
Dougal has worked with Insight Radio in Glasgow and BBC Switch in London. He now lives in Berlin and has contributed to Artconnect Berlin and Slow Travel Berlin.
Paul Sullivan
Paul is a Berlin-based writer, author & travel photographer and the founder/editor of Slow Travel Berlin. His personal website is here and some of his photography galleries can be viewed here.
Wyndham Wallace
Wyndham has lived in Berlin since 2004, having spent the previous eight years running the UK office of Berlin’s City Slang Records. He works as a music and travel journalist (contributing to The Guardian, Uncut, BBC Music, The Quietus and more), and has been known to contribute photographs to a number of publications. In addition, he consults for two of Norway’s finest festivals, by:Larm and Træna, and worked as a manager for Cortney Tidwell and Lee Hazlewood, about whom he is currently working on a book, and for whom he wrote the lyrics to his final song, ‘Hilli (At The Top Of The World)’, a collaboration with Sigur Ros’ string section, amiina. If you ever watch Sebastian Schipper’s ‘Mitte Ende August’, you’ll see he did the English subtitles for that too.
