Claire Malroux is the author of a dozen collections of poems, including Edge, A Long-Gone Sun, and Birds and Bison, all of which were translated into English by Marilyn Hacker. She is also a French translator of Anglophone poets, notably Marilyn Hacker, Henri Cole, Derek Walcott, Wallace Stevens, and, in particular, Emily Dickinson. She lives in Paris, France.

Marilyn Hacker is the author of fourteen books of poems, including Blazons, A Stranger's Mirror, and Names; and an essay collection, Unauthorized Voices. Her seventeen translations of other French and Francophone poets include Jean-Paul de Dadelsen's That Light, All at Once: Selected Poems, and Samira Negrouche's The Olive Trees' Jazz and Other Poems. She lives in Paris, France.