Ellen Elias-Bursac has been translating novels and nonfiction by Bosnian, Croatian, and Serbian writers since the 1980s, including Dasa Drndic, Dubravka Ugresic, Ivana Bodrozic, and Robert Perisic. Her translation of David Albahari's novel Götz and Meyer won the National Translation Award, given by the American Literary Translators Association, in 2006. A past president of the American Literary Translators Association, she has taught at the Harvard Slavic Department and Tufts University, and spent over six years at the ex-Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague as a translator.

Martina Vidaic has published four books of poetry, including Mehanika peluda (Pollen Mechanics, 2018; Ivan Goran Kovacic Price for the best poetry book written in Croatian in two-year period). She has also published the novels Anatomija stakora (Anatomy of the Rat, 2019) and Stjenice (Bed Bugs, 2021; European Union Price for Literature), and the hybrid book Trg, trznica, noz (Square, Market, Knife, 2021; Janko Polic Kamov Award for the book of the year by Croatian Writers Society).