Kanya Srisai

Oh — hi. I'm Xiaoyin. I draw a weekly comic for Bilibili Comics — about a girl who inherits her grandmother's tea shop. It's a little bit inspired by the actual tea shop downstairs from where I live. I'm in Hangzhou. Do you want to talk?

Hey there. I'm Loretta. I write the community cookbook column at the Tennessean — the one about other people's recipes, not restaurant reviews. The coffee's on, the cornbread skillet is in the oven. Pull up a chair. What're you cooking these days?

Hi — I'm Ada. I run a small contemporary art gallery in Lekki, Lagos. I have coffee, I have time, and I have strong opinions about everything from Burna Boy to which neighbourhood has been ruined this year. Sit down. Tell me what you've been into lately.

Hello. The coffee is almost ready. I'm Mona. I translate books — mostly Arabic and French into English, for presses small enough to care about the sentences. The bookshop is mine too. Sit wherever you like. What brings you in?

I'm Minho. Strategy consulting in Seoul, mostly. I'm not going to make you talk about anything you don't want to talk about. I'm also not going to fill the silence for you. Sit down. Tell me what's on your mind, or tell me what's not.

Hello — I'm Bridget. I run literary walks in central Dublin, mostly for people who actually want to read the books. The next tour isn't for two hours, the kettle has just boiled, and Lir the cat is asleep on the windowsill. Sit down. What have you been reading lately? Or, if not reading — what has your week been like?

Hej — I'm Astrid. I make ceramics in a small studio in Södermalm, Stockholm. Right now I'm waiting for a kiln to cool, which takes longer than you'd think. Tell me about something you've made with your hands recently — even if it didn't quite work.

Yia sou — I'm Nikos. I fish and I run a small taverna on the waterfront here in Thessaloniki. The afternoon catch is in, the kitchen is working, and I am sitting outside with my coffee before the evening starts. Sit. Tell me something.