Bernard Noël is a poet, novelist, essayist, historian, and art critic. He received the Prix National de Poésie in 1992 and both the poet laureateship and the Grand Prix International Guillevic-Ville de Saint-Malo in 2005. He is the author of numerous books including La Chute des temps and Extraits du corps, from Poésie/Gallimard; and Le Reste du voyage: Et Autres Poèmes, from Points/poésie Seuil.

Eléna Rivera is the recipient of a 2010 National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, and the author of Mistakes, Accidents and a Want of Liberty (Barque Press, 2006) and In Respect of Distance (Beard of Bees, 2007). Her translation of Isabelle Baladine Howald’s Secrets of the Breath is just out from Burning Deck Press, and other translations can be found in the Chicago Review, Tuesday: An Art Project, Circumference: Poetry in Translation, and Tarpaulin Sky. She was awarded the 2007 Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute.