Jean D'Amérique (b. 1994 in Côte-de-Fer, Haiti) is a poet, playwright, and novelist. He splits his time between Paris, Brussels, and Port-au-Prince. He has published several collections of poetry: Petite fleur du ghetto (Atelier Jeudi Soir), recipient of a special mention from the Prix René Philoctète; Nul chemin dans la peau que saignante étreinte (Cheyne), Prix de Poésie de la Vocation; Atelier du silence (Cheyne); and Rhapsodie rouge (Cheyne). Author of several plays, he has received the Prix Jean-Jacques Lerrant des Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre for Cathédrale des cochons (Éditions Théâtrales) and the 2021 Prix RFI Théâtre for Opéra poussière. His first novel, Soleil à coudre, was published by Actes Sud and in English translation by Other Press.

Conor Bracken (b. 1987 in Boston, USA) is the author of Henry Kissinger, Mon Amour (Bull City Press) and The Enemy of My Enemy Is Me (Diode Editions). He is also the translator of Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine's Scorpionic Sun (CSU Poetry Center) and Jean D'Amérique's No Way in the Skin without This Bloody Embrace (Ugly Duckling Presse), which was a finalist for the 2023 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. His work has received support from the Community of Writers, Bread Loaf, the Frost Place, Inprint, Cornell's Institute for Comparative Modernities, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference. He lives in Ohio, where he is an assistant professor of liberal arts at the Cleveland Institute of Art.