Emmanuel Moses was born in Casablanca and spent his early childhood in France. He lived in Israel from the ages of ten to eighteen, then returned to Paris, where he still lives. He is the author of six novels and eight collections of poems, most recently L’Animal (Flammarion, 2010). He is a translator of contemporary Hebrew fiction and poetry, notably of Yehuda Amichai. He also translates from German as well as English.

Marilyn Hacker lives in New York and Paris. She is the author of twelve books of poems, most recently Names (W. W. Norton, 2009). For her own poetry, she has been awarded the Lenore Marshall Award, the Poets' Prize, a National Book Award, two Lambda Literary Awards and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her ten volumes of translations include Emmanuel Moses' He and I; Marie Etienne's King of a Hundred Horsemen; and Vénus Khoury-Ghata's Nettles.