Born in Rennes in 1982, Jean-Marie Pottier is an independent journalist, after working as an economic journalist for the magazine Challenges, then as editor-in-chief of Slate.fr. Currently, he works for Sciences humaines, Arte, L' Express, Retronews, and Society, for which he has written several stories and reports on American politics and society. Passionate about music, he writes regularly for the pop magazine Magic. He is also the author of several essays published with Editions Le mot et le reste, including Ground Zero: A musical history of September 11 (2016) and Alternative Nation: The Independent American Scene, 1979-2001 (2021).

Professor Lynn E. Palermo is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages at Susquehanna University. She earned her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University in 2003. Her recent work has focused on literary translation and its pedagogy. She received a 2018 NEA Translation Fellowship for her translation of Humus, by Fabienne Kanor, to appear in the UVA Press CARAF Series. In 2016, she received a French Voices Award for her co-translation of Cyrille Fleischman's Destiny's Repairman. Her translations have appeared in journals including the Kenyon Review Online, Exchanges Literary Journal, and World Literature Today. She has also published research on the cultural politics of interwar France. She is a volunteer translator for the UN and affiliated organizations.