Lyonel Trouillot is a Haitian novelist, poet, journalist, and teacher of French and Creole literature. For his novel La Belle Amour humaine, he was awarded the Grand Prix du Roman Métis, the Geneva Book Fair Literary Prize, and the Gitanjali Literary Prize. Trouillot was made a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in 2010. Having lived in exile in Miami for several years, he has now returned to Haiti and lives in Port-au-Prince.

Willard Wood grew up in France and has translated more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction from the French. He has won the Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. He lives in Norfolk, Connecticut.