Creator	Role
Pete Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg is the Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg is a veteran, musician, and businessman, and is formerly known as South Bend's "Mayor Pete."	Guest
Nicole Flattery Nicole Flattery is an author. Her stories involve themes of early to mid-life lack of direction, womanhood, and work. Most of her protagonists come from small Irish towns and are often trying to create a new life for themselves in a big city.Flattery's work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, The Letters Page, The Dublin Review, Winter Papers, and The White Review. Her first book, the collection “Show Them a Good Time,” was published in 2020.Flattery received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Trinity College.	Author
Ayşegül Savaş Ayşegül Savaş is a writer. She was raised in Turkey and Denmark, then attended Middlebury College in Vermont. She teaches at the Sorbonne. Her first novel, "Walking on the Ceiling," was published in 2019. She has published three novels.	Narrator
Claire-Louise Bennett Claire-Louise Bennett is an author. Bennet's fiction and essays have appeared in The White Review, The Stinging Fly, gorse, Harper's Magazine, Vogue Italia, Music & Literature, and The New York Times magazine. She also writes about art and is a frequent contributor to frieze. In addition she has written for Tate etc., Artforum, and a number of international exhibition catalogues.Bennett's first book, "Pond," was published in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize. Her second book, "Checkout 19," was published in 2021, and was shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize.In 2016, Bennett was writer-in-residence at Temple Bar Gallery & Studio.	Narrator