Claire Lebourg studied at the School of Decorative Arts in Strasbourg, and now lives and works in Rennes. She has published several picture books, including How Dreadful! and Like This, and the Mousse series for early readers. In addition to her work as an author-illustrator, she creates maps and posters and organizes talks and workshops for children and adults.

Sophie Lewis has translated works from French and Portuguese by Stendhal, Jules Verne, Marcel Aymé, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani, Mona Chollet and Annie Ernaux, as well as Natalia Borges Polesso, João Gilberto Noll, Sheyla Smanioto, Victor Heringer and Patrícia Melo, among others. With Gitanjali Patel, she cofounded the Shadow Heroes workshops enterprise. Lewis’s translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She was joint winner of the 2022 French-American Foundation prize for nonfiction translation, for Nastassja Martin’s In the Eye of the Wild.