Dimosthenis Papamarkos was born in 1983 in Malessina, Greece. Widely regarded as one of the main voices of his generation, Papamarkos has published novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, poetry and graphic novels. As artist in residence at the Onassis Foundation in 2020, he wrote the play Στον Κόρακα (A Murder of Crows). Gjak received the prestigious Academy of Athens award, among others, and has been successfully adapted for the stage by three of Greece's most prominent theatre companies. He is based in Athens, Greece.

Siân Valvis is a British-Greek literary translator working from Greek, Russian, French and Portuguese. She was the recipient of the National Centre for Writing's Emerging Translator Mentorship in 2020. Her first book, the transadaptation Kolobok (Fontanka, 2021), won a PEN Translates award. Valvis's work has since been shortlisted for the John Dryden Prize and the AAWP Translation Prize. She is currently based in Sao Paulo.