Olivier Brossard is Professor of North American literature at Université Gustave Eiffel where he co-chairs the English Department and serves as Deputy Vice-President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. With Vincent Broqua and Abigail Lang, he runs the Poets and Critics program as well as the poetry collective double change. A translator of poetry, he is joca seria éditions North American poetry series editor.His current projects include a collaboration with Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago) on a comparative geopoetics project about the rivers of Paris and Chicago (2024-2026). He published his first volume of poems, Let, with P.O.L in May 2024.  

Vincent Broqua and his band of heteronyms seek to learn again the forgotten art of gayety. To that effect his latest books are Recovery (trans. Cole Swensen, Pamenar Press, 2022), La langue du garçon (Al Dante / Presses du réel, 2023), Malgré la ligne droite : l’écriture américaine de Josef Albers (Presses du réel, 2021), and Photocall: projet d'attendrissement (Les petits matins, 2021). To that effect, he is a writer, translator and professor at Université Paris 8. With Olivier Brossard and Abigail Lang is the co-curator of the Double Change reading series and the Poets and Critics series. 

Bhanu Kapil is an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. She is the author of six books, most recently two new, non-identical editions of Incubation: a space for monsters, from Prototype (UK) and Kelsey Street Press (U.S.). New work includes a succession of performances with dramaturg Blue Pieta. Then, there are performance scores derived from the memory of these performances and rehearsals. Recently, she began to blog again, at Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi?

Abigail Lang is Associate Professor of North American literature at Université Paris Cité. She is the author of La Conversation transatlantique (2021), an account of the exchanges between French and US poets after 1968. With Vincent Broqua and Olivier Brossard, she curates the long-running Poets & Critics program and the Double Change bilingual poetry series. A translator of some twenty volumes of English-language poetry into French, she is also the author of two books with Thalia Field, A Prank of Georges (2010) and Leave to Remain. Legends of Janus (2020), both made into audiobooks by Ben Williams.

Cole Swensen is the author of twenty volumes of poetry, most recently And And And (Shearsman Books, 2023), which was long-listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and a collection of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise. A book of hybrid poem-essays, Art in Time, was published by Nightboat in 2021. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Award and has been awarded the Iowa Poetry Prize, the SF State Poetry Center Book Award, and the National Poetry Series. She has also translated over twenty volumes of poetry, prose, and art criticism from French and won the 2024 ALTA National Translation Award and the 2025 Stephen Mitchell Translation Award.