Ria Patricia Röder and Laura van den Berg

Laura van den Berg’s most recent novel, The Third Hotel, was an ABA IndieNext Pick, named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen media outlets, and a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. She is also the author of one previous novel, Find Me, and two story collections. Her honors include the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, the Bard Fiction Prize, and the O. Henry Award. Laura van den Berg lives in Cambridge, MA, with her husband and dog, and is a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Fiction at Harvard. Her next story collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, is forthcoming from FSG in 2020. Ria Patricia Röder is a German-Portuguese visual artist currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her work has been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions. The Scanograms were recently presented in solo exhibitions at Sla307 Art Space in New York City and Galerie de Zaal in Delft, The Netherlands.