Inquisitive and often on the road and a traveller, Rachel Hausfater lived in Germany, the United States, and Israel plying various trades. Today, in addition to writing, Rachel Hausfater is an English teacher at a school in Bobigny. A translator and author for Thierry Magnier publishing, she wrote a novel in 2009, Un soir j’ai divorcé de mes parents (The Night I Divorced My Parents).
Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. She won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, the Prix littéraire France-Québec, and the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in Paris.