Hope Mirrlees was a British translator, poet, and novelist. She is the author of numerous books, including The Counterplot, Lud-in-the-Mist, Madeleine: One of Love's Jansenists, and Paris: A Poem. She lives in New York City. Sandeep Parmar is a visiting scholar at New York University, where she also teaches, as well as a former English literature and creative writing professor at the University of Hertfordshire and at the University of Cambridge. She has published numerous articles and contributed to The Salt Companion to Mina Loy.