Giorgio van Straten is the author of several novels, including the prize-winning My Name, A Living Memory. He has translated into Italian the works of authors such as Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, and Robert Louis Stevenson. From 2015 to 2019 he was the director of the Italian Cultural Institute in New York and is currently president of the Fondazione Alinari, one of the oldest and most important photographic archives in the world.

Jill Foulston is a writer and editor as well as a translator. She has translated works by Alba de Céspedes, Erri de Luca, Maddalena Vaglio Tanet, Piero Chiara, Marco Balzano, and Augusto De Angelis, and has twice been short-listed for the American Literary Translators Association's Italian Prose in Translation Award.