Biswamit Dwibedy was born in Odisha, India and now lives in Paris, France. He lived in Iowa City, Iowa for several years and has an MFA from Bard College, New York. He is the author of Erode (Litmus Press), Ancient Guest (HarperCollins India), Hundred Greatest Love Songs (Penguin Random House), Hubble Gardener (Spuyten Duyvil), and the chapbooks Eirik’s Ocean (Portable Press), MC3 (Essay Press), Ozalid (1913 Press) and Film of Dust (Sputnik & Fizzle). His poems have been published in Poetry Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Tarpaulin Sky, and Best American Experimental Poetry amongst other places. He translates from Hindi and Oriya and his poems have been translated into French. Dwibedy is also a visual artist and he co-directs the MFA in creative writing at The American University of Paris.

Satabdi Mishra is an independent bookseller, publisher, book curator, bookmobile pilot, and co-founder of Walking BookFairs. She is the co-creator of the Walking BookFairs Travel Writing Festival, a first of its kind traveling literature festival in India. She also leads the Walking BookFairs Book Club centering women and diverse voices in art and literature.

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.