Mia Maria Rohumaa

Mia Maria would rather be the sound small stones make under the sea when the waves come in or the markings of birds’ feathertips in the melting snowwill run for the tram and make it or miss it, just barelyis an artist whose preffered medium is words.

Mia Maria Rohumaa is currently studying Contemporary Art MA at the Estonian Academy of Arts. She is actively involved in literary network Circa 7 Celsius and Estonian Young Artists’ Association of Contemporary Art (ENKKL). Her artistic practice is centred on mixing words and ingredients to make texts and meals, and also creating situations where unknown things can happen.

Emma Kjær Madsen

Emma is an Danish author and graduate from Forfatterstudiet i Bø and Tromsø, Norway.
I write about human connections and the surfaces people place over the world as a way of protecting themselves. My work revolves around slow and form-driven literature and often moves within hybrid genres, where materiality and structure are central elements. I am interested in the relationship between human and nature, and how language can mirror materials, transformation, and imitation. My practice explores literary form as an active, co-creating layer, and I am drawn to experimentation.

I am participating in Intertwine with an idea for a form experiment that engages in a dialogue with the process of letterpress printing and book binding printing in contemporary context. I look forward to finding inspiration in the hands-on workshops, and in the constraints, I encounter there, as well as in the surroundings of Gamlegård and Torna Hällestad. I have previously published the novel“Spontan selvforbrænding”(2022) at Escho in Denmark and the poems “Stork 3/Mauna Loa” (2025) at Skrot in Norway.

Paola Jalili (she / her)

Paola is an artist-publisher and cultural worker currently based in Helsinki. In 2021, she started Ei Mainoksia, Kiitos!, an independent art publishing initiative that aims to prioritize care and highlight the time and labor behind the act of publishing. 

She is a part of Feminist Culture House, a curatorial and editorial platform that works with and for underrepresented artists, and produces tools for more equitable collaborations within the arts. In her visual arts practice, Paola reflects on the intersections between labor, gender, and the contemporary workplace through the project Office Aesthetics.

Solveiga Kaļva

Solveiga is a freelance writer from Riga, Latvia, and a graduate of the Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies Master's Program at the University of Tartu, Estonia. She is interested in the ways people perceive places, their relationship with places and how a place can portray community and individuals and vice versa.