François Dominique is an acclaimed novelist, essayist, poet, and translator. He has received the Burgundy Prize for Literature and is the author of eight novels, including Aseroë (forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in September 2020) and Solène, winner of the Wepler Award and Prix littéraire Charles Brisset. He has translated the poetry of Louis Zukofsky and Rainer Maria Rilke and is the cofounder of the publishing house Ulysses-Fin-de-Siècle. He has also taught law and political science at the University of Burgundy.

Richard Sieburth, emeritus professor of English, French, and comparative literature at New York University, is an essayist, editor, literary scholar, and award-winning translator working in several languages. His translations from the French include works by Gérard de Nerval, Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Michel Leiris, Henri Michaux, and Antonin Artaud. His essays and translations have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Bookforum, Harper's Magazine, Poetry, Conjunctions, and elsewhere.

Howard Limoli (1933-2013) was the translator of works by Marguerite Duras and of the poetry of Tristan Tzara. For thirty years he taught in the Foreign Language Department of Sonoma State University in California.