Kirmen Uribe writes in Basque. He is one of the most relevant and widely translated writers of his generation in Spain. He has written two collections of poems and four novels. Uribe won Spain's National Prize for Literature for his first novel, Bilbao-New York-Bilbao. His works have appeared in the New Yorker and the Paris Review, among many other journals. He was selected for the Iowa International Writers Program in 2017 and was awarded the New York Public Library Cullman Center Fellowship for 2018-2019. He is now based in New York City, where he teaches creative writing at New York University.

Elizabeth Macklin is the author of the poetry collections A Woman Kneeling in the Big City and You've Just Been Told. A 1994 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry, she received, in 1998, an Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, which allowed her to spend a year in the Basque Country, beginning studies in Euskara. Her translation of Kirmen Uribe's first poetry book, Meanwhile Take My Hand, was published in 2007. In addition to Bilbao-New York-Bilbao, she has translated numerous multimedia works in which Uribe has been involved. In the Basque Country she is a member of Zart Cultural Center.