About the Author

Author and playwright Suzanne Dracius was born in Fort-de-France, Martinique, and grew up in Sceaux, a suburb of Paris. She later returned to Martinique as a professor of classical literature, and she has been a visiting professor at the University of Georgia and Ohio University. Nancy Naomi Carlson is a translator. Her translation of Abdourahman Waberi's The Nomads, My Brothers, Go Out to Drink from the Big Dipper was named a finalist for the Best Translated Book Award in 2016. Catherine Maigret Kellogg is a translator who was born and raised in France and moved to the United States almost twenty years ago.