Khalid Lyamlahy is a professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago. He completed a PhD in Francophone Studies at Oxford, and is the author of Nostalgic Rebels: Politics, Aesthetics, and Selfhood in Postcolonial Morocco (Liverpool University Press, 2025).His first novel, Un roman étranger, was published in 2017. Khalid lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Ros Schwartz is an award-winning French language translator of over one hundred books. Her translations have received multiple PEN Translates Awards, and was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. She lives in London, England.