Sara Stridsberg is an acclaimed Swedish author and playwright. Her international breakthrough, The Faculty of Dreams, was nominated for the Man Booker Prize in 2018. In 2021, she became a member of Sweden’s Society of the Nine, which promotes Swedish literature, peace, and women’s issues. She is also the author of picture book The Summer of Diving (a New York Times Best Children’s Book of 2022).

Beatrice Alemagna (You Can’t Kill Snow White, Telling Stories Wrong, Child of Glass, On a Magical Do-Nothing Day) has written and illustrated dozens of children’s books. The recipient of three New York Times Best Illustrated Awards, she has also been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award seven times and shortlisted for the Hans Christian Andersen Award twice. Born in Bologna, Italy, she lives and works in Paris, France.

B.J. Woodstein is a Swedish-to-English translator, writer, editor, and doula. She is the English-language translator of The Summer of Diving by Sara Stridsberg, illustrated by Sara Lundberg, and The Book That Did Not Want to be Read by David Sundin, illustrated by Alexis Holmqvist. She lives with her wife and their daughters in Norwich, England.