Dan Josefsson is a freelance journalist with an emphasis on social and cultural journalism. He is a contributor to Swedish newspapers Aftonbladet and DN and has also made several documentaries for Swedish Television, many of which have attracted a lot of media attention. He was the recipient of the Digging Journalists’ Award, The Golden Spade in 1999 and was also the first journalist to turn down The Grand Journalist Prize in 2000. He lives in the Stockholm area with his partner and their two year-old daughter.

Egil Linge has worked within the psychologist/psychotherapist profession for more than thirty years. It was his gap year experiences in Australia that initially inspired his choice of career and since he has worked particularly with cognitive psychotherapy - both with adults and children. He now splits his time between Visby and Stockholm, where he runs practices. He also works as a lecturer and is Latvia’s honorary consul on Gotland.