Samira Negrouche was born in Algiers where she lives. Author of several poetry collections, she’s also an essayist, translator as well as a doctor who has privileged her literary craft over the practice of medicine. Partial to multidisciplinary projects, she frequently collaborates with visual artists and musicians. Recent collaborations include performances Quai 2|1 with violinist Marianne Piketty and theorbist Bruno Helstroffer and Traces with choreographer Fatou Cissé. Her recent books include Stations (Chèvre-feuille étoilée, 2023) and J’habite en movement (Barzakh, 2023). The Olive-Trees' Jazz and Other Poems (Pleiades Press, 2020), translated by Marilyn Hacker, was shortlisted for The Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and The National Translation Award in Poetry.

Nancy Naomi Carlson is a translator, poet, and essayist whose translation of Khal Torabully’s Cargo Hold of Stars: Coolitude (Seagull, 2021) won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize and was shortlisted for the Sarah Maguire Translation Prize. Decorated with the French Academic Palms and twice awarded NEA literature translation grants, she’s authored fourteen books (nine translated), including An Infusion of Violets (Seagull, 2019), named “New & Noteworthy” by The New York Times and Piano in the Dark (Seagull, 2023). Her recent co-translation of Wendy Guerra’s Delicates (Seagull, 2023) was recommended by The New York Times. She’s the Translations Editor for On the Seawall.